[Interest] QtQuick - How to move focus away from disabled Item?

[Ola Røer Thorsen]

Hi Jerome, thanks!

Yes I know about the FocusScope item and how it works. The specific issue
is the one I explained in my previous email, and I'm looking for a
workaround. FocusScope doues not move focus to another item if the current
focus item is disabled.

Cheers,
Ola


2015-01-28 18:04 GMT+01:00 Jérôme Godbout <jerome at bodycad.com>:

> Hi,
> This may not be a direct answer but you may want to take a look at
> FocusScope Qml Element:
> http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-focusscope.html
>
> Here's a good explaination about those scope:
> http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-input-focus.html
>
> Hope this help somehow,
> Jerome
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Ola Røer Thorsen <ola at silentwings.no>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having some trouble making a robust QtQuick 5.4-based application
>> where I only have 4 cursor keys and a return key available as the input
>> method for the user.
>>
>> I have various gui buttons that I can move focus between. I've set this
>> up using the KeyNavigation.onXXX etc. For a simple static gui, this is
>> fine.
>>
>> However I get into trouble once some buttons get disabled
>> (enabled-property set to false). This is done based on external events, so
>> it may happen at any time.
>>
>> If a button with active focus is disabled, I'm stuck. The button's focus
>> property is still true, but it will not receive key events, so I cannot
>> move focus to the next using the cursor keys. I'd like focus to move on to
>> some other item automatically anyway.
>>
>> Have any of you got some recommended way of dealing with situations like
>> this?
>>
>> I think I've spent half the development time on this application just
>> making sure keyboard navigation cannot get stuck.
>>
>> I did not have such issues when creating similar applications with Qt
>> Widgets. There the behavior is that focus moves on to another widget
>> automatically if I call setEnabled(false) on a widget with current active
>> focus.
>>
>> I've tried doing something like this in my Button item:
>>
>> Button {
>>    id: button
>>    activeFocusOnTab: true
>>    function transferFocus() {
>>       if(!visible || enabled)
>>          return;
>>       if(nextItemInFocusChain() === button)
>>          return;
>>       if(focus)
>>          nextItemInFocusChain().focus = true;
>>    }
>>    onEnabledChanged: transferFocus()
>> }
>>
>> This works OK in a smaller test application, but makes the larger
>> application hang when  "nextItemInFocusChain" is called for the 20th time
>> or so.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ola
>>
>>
>>
>>
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