Setting Tab-Order / Reorder Components

[lophiomys]

Is there a visual editor for setting the tab order in Swing Desginer?

In the SWT forum I found a "Reorder Components"-window,
which I cannot find for Swing/JGoodies Form Layout or Spring Layout?

Moving the compontes in the control tree, moves the controls to akward
positions/cells in JG Form Layout.

Kind Regards,
Lophiomys
using 4.1.1 build 2005/8/21

[Eric Clayberg]

Is there a visual editor for setting the tab order in Swing Desginer?

No. Swing has its own peculiar notions of tab order. In order to override them, you need to create a subclass of FocusTraversalPolicy and use setFocusTraversalPolicy() to apply it to the container.

We might be able to provode graphical support for that at some point in the future.

[Eric Clayberg]

In order to override them, you need to create a subclass of FocusTraversalPolicy and use setFocusTraversalPolicy() to apply it to the container. We might be able to provide graphical support for that at some point in the future.

The latest v4.1.1 build now provides the ability to set the tab order for Swing components by setting the focusTraversalPolicy property.



As a convenience, you can also right-click on a container and select the Set tab order command.

[lophiomys]

Thank you very much for implementing it so quickly.

Cheers,
Lophiomys