Keyboard navigation of dialogs

Richard legalize+jeeves at mail.xmission.com
Mon Aug 6 09:36:12 PDT 2007


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>Richard <legalize+jeeves at mail.xmission.com> wrote:
>> [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]
>>
>> I'm playing around with DialogBlocks.  I know its written in
>> wxWidgets.  The keyboard navigation of dialogs and controls seems
>> especially weak in DialogBlocks compared to other Windows
>> applications.  For instance, TAB doesn't navigate through the controls
>> on a dialog box in tab order.
>>
>> Is this the only behavior for wxWidgets based applications?  How can I
>> provide better keyboard navigation in my own wxWidgets based
>> applications?
>
>For me TAB navigation works, but perhaps someone forgot the
>wxTAB_TRAVERSAL style (see doc for wxWindow).

Are you saying it works in DialogBlocks, or that it works in your own
application?  What I'm seeing on the DialogBlocks list is that they
admit its keyboard traversal is very buggy.  I found like 20 bugs in
the way keyboard navigation is handled in that application.
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