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changeset 120:46c63cb1c74f
Ideas for keyboard selection of widgets.
| author | Diggory Hardy <diggory.hardy@gmail.com> |
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| date | Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:16:00 +0000 |
| parents | d28aea50c6da |
| children | 5b37d0400732 |
| files | codeDoc/ideas.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/codeDoc/ideas.txt Thu Jan 01 14:52:09 2009 +0000 +++ b/codeDoc/ideas.txt Thu Jan 01 15:16:00 2009 +0000 @@ -15,3 +15,17 @@ -> Click events: widgets only receive clickEvent for left-button press, other button events handled alternatively from WidgetManager? -> Click callbacks: replace with "drag callback" notifying widget of release position (and widget)? -> possibly better for drag-and drop support +-> Keyboard widget focus/selection: + -> a widget is highlighted + -> pressing an arrow key replaces widget with widget.nextInDirection (widget, direction) + -> on non-parents, nextInDirection returns parent.nextInDirection (this, direction) + -> on parent widgets, if widget is a child and not right against relevent edge, + then tries to return next descendant in direction (only non-parent widgets are returned) + else does same as non-parent widgets + -> some widgets may popup a menu when activated + -> caveats: + -> all widgets need a highlighted state to show focus + -> may require moving through a lot of widgets + -> with complicated substructures, may not be very intuitive + -> limit to popup menus? + -> these keyboard events only passed if activated by code outside the WidgetManager and no text input callback is active?