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Bug 5899

Summary:	No focus indication on toolbar toggle buttons
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Steve Northover <snorthov>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	csmclaren
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	accessibility
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Nick Edgar

2001-11-14 10:50:03 EST

Build 20011112

If a toolbar contains a toggle button that is selected, it has no visual 
indication in the tab order.
To see:
- switch to debug perspective
- click on breakpoints view
- Shift-Tab twice to toolbar
- use arrow keys to alternate between "Hide qualified names" toggle button 
and "Add Java exception breakpoint" push button. The latter is visible in the 
tab order, but the former is not.

Comment 1 Mike Wilson

2002-04-17 13:29:22 EDT

required for accessibility. Please assign to someone else if you can't get to 
it soon.

Comment 2 Steve Northover

2002-04-17 14:15:52 EDT

Windows uses the "hot state" to show the current item when traversing a toolbar 
with the keyboard.  Toggled items have no "hot state".  Sorry, there's nothing 
we can do.

Comment 3 Nick Edgar

2002-04-18 11:11:51 EDT

Is this related to the problem where a selected toggle button always shows the 
hot icon (even when disabled)?  Could it be changed to show the regular icon 
instead, then show the hot icon when hovering or when it has keyboard focus?
(And when disabled, show the disabled icon)?
Or is it just that these options aren't available because the OS steals the hot 
icon to show selection?

Comment 4 Steve Northover

2002-04-18 11:19:46 EDT

Windows uses the "hot indication" to show focus.  Tool items that are toggled 
do not display any hot indication so you are right, "the OS steals the hot 
icon to show selection".

Comment 5 Nick Edgar

2002-04-22 09:15:32 EDT

Note that even though focus is not visually shown for a selected toolbar toggle 
button, it still actually has focus.  The button's label and state is therefore 
read properly by assistive technologies like JAWS.

Comment 6 Nick Edgar

2002-05-08 13:35:52 EDT

*** Bug 15553 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***