Description Dave Orme 2006-03-29 22:34:51 EST

From the newsgroup:

Christoph Jaeger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I created a simple login dialog, which has a default button called
> login. When I click this button with the mouse, all values (userId and
> password text field) are propagated through the databinding setup.
> However, when I just hit the <ENTER> key to activate the default (login)
> button, the last field I edited (typically the "password" field) is not
> propagated to the property defined.
> 
> As a workaround, I programmatically set the focus to a different field
> to trigger "onFocusLost", and then go on -> works nicely.
> 
> I tried to fill in a bug report, but I first have to register there, and
> wanted to make this known as soon as possible, as it is probably a quick
> fix.

I'm not sure it's a quick fix since I'm not sure what the correct behavior would be.

As you observed, we normally save on focus lost.  Perhaps we should set a filter on the Display that triggers a data binding save whenever any Button gets a Selection event?

Does anyone have any suggestions here?