From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-01-24T01:04:27+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby: Tab control of widgets

John Reed wrote:

> I searched the posts for an answer to my question and based on the
> information that I found, my code should work. Here is the answer that
> I found:
> 
> Quoting Jeroen's response from the foxgui-users mailing list:
> 
> "The tab order is implied by the widget insertion order. The arrow
> keys can
> be used to navigate based on geometric placement."
> 
> What is happening is that when I hit the tab from the "Female"
> (sexgrp) field on my screen, it skips over the "Date of death"
> (dodtxt) field and goes to the "Social Security #" (ssntxt) field.
> I've tried to delete the code and then paste it back, but it always
> does the same thing. Here is my code:

<snip>

I can't reproduce this here; if I click on the "Female" radio button (to 
give it the focus) and then press the tab key, it jumps to the "Date of 
death" field as expected.

Can you try the test program I used (shown below) to see if it works 
properly on your system? If it does, maybe something else is going on in 
your real program that the code snippet doesn't show.

Lyle

<<< test program follows

require 'fox'

include Fox

class TabOrderWindow < FXMainWindow
   def initialize(anApp)
     # Initialize base class
     super(anApp, "TabOrder", nil, nil, DECOR_ALL, 0, 0, 800, 300)

     # Contents
     contents = FXPacker.new(self, LAYOUT_FILL_X|LAYOUT_FILL_Y)

     # Sex
     sexgrp = FXGroupBox.new(contents, "2. Sex",
       FRAME_GROOVE|LAYOUT_FIX_X|LAYOUT_FIX_Y, x=275, y=10)
     sexgrp.setFont(FXFont.new(getApp(), "helvetica", 12))
     FXRadioButton.new(sexgrp, "&Male", nil, 0,
       ICON_BEFORE_TEXT|LAYOUT_SIDE_TOP)
     FXRadioButton.new(sexgrp, "&Female", nil, 0,
       ICON_BEFORE_TEXT|LAYOUT_SIDE_TOP)

     # Date of death
     dodlbl1 = FXLabel.new(contents,
       "3. &Date of Death ", nil,
       LAYOUT_FIX_X|LAYOUT_FIX_Y, x=365, y=10)

     dodlbl1.setFont(FXFont.new(getApp(), "helvetica", 12))
     dodlbl2 = FXLabel.new(contents,
       "(month, day, year)", nil,
       LAYOUT_FIX_X|LAYOUT_FIX_Y, x=375, y=30)

     dodlbl2.setFont(FXFont.new(getApp(), "helvetica", 10))
     dodtxt = FXTextField.new(contents, 15, nil, 0,
       JUSTIFY_LEFT|FRAME_SUNKEN|FRAME_THICK|
       LAYOUT_FIX_X|LAYOUT_FIX_Y, x=365, y=55)
     dodtxt.setFont(FXFont.new(getApp(), "helvetica", 12))

     # Social security number
     ssnlabel = FXLabel.new(contents,
       "4. &Social Security Number", nil,
       LAYOUT_FIX_X|LAYOUT_FIX_Y, x=540, y=10)
     ssnlabel.setFont(FXFont.new(getApp(), "helvetica", 12))
     ssntxt = FXTextField.new(contents, 11, nil, 0,
       TEXTFIELD_LIMITED|JUSTIFY_LEFT|FRAME_SUNKEN|FRAME_THICK|
       LAYOUT_FIX_X|LAYOUT_FIX_Y, x=560, y=55)
     ssntxt.setFont(FXFont.new(getApp(), "helvetica", 12))
   end

   def create
     super
     show(PLACEMENT_SCREEN)
   end
end

if __FILE__ == $0
   FXApp.new("TabOrder", "FXRuby") do |anApp|
     TabOrderWindow.new(anApp)
     anApp.create
     anApp.run
   end
end