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Bug 330331

Summary: arrow key can't switch focus in MessageDialog
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: qiulin <qiulin>
Component: SWTAssignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: eclipse.felipe, remy.suen
Version: 4.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description qiulin CLA 2010-11-16 05:22:54 EST 
Build Identifier: 3.5.2.v3557f-RCP20100624-1500

This pertains to MessageDialog on linux. When open a dialog window, e.g. openQuestion, you can't switch focus between YES and NO by using arrow key. 

Note: no such issue on win32.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a MessageDialog
2. openQuestion
3. can't use arrow key to switch focus between buttons
Comment 1 Felipe Heidrich CLA 2010-11-22 11:59:19 EST 
Sorry, this is by design. Push buttons are tab group in GTK - and for that reason you need to use tab key to traverse them. Note that radio and check buttons, on the other hand, are tab items - and are traversed with arrow keys.

Closing as wont fix.