Re: Proposed tabbed_pane widget changes

Alex Russell wrote:

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>>Next item. There is no mechanism to have the widget automatically
>>switch to the next tab other than by clicking on it.
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>I think that Shift-left and Shift-right keystroke modifiers (or 
>something similar but not caught by the browser) might also be useful 
>here.
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Ya, I thought of that too, but it would conflict with our internal table 
widget which already co-opts those keys. I'm still trying to think this 
one through.

>>I would like
>>to implement the capability so that when you 'blur' off the last
>>input/button/select/textarea element on the pane, it automatically
>>makes visible the next pane in the tab order. 
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>Um, what if I got to a previous element in the same container? Do I 
>then still get switched?
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>I think the intended behvior here is to move to the next tab if I 
>tab-through the last input element, not necessarialy if I blur off of 
>the last one.
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Correct. I believe we can check to see what other key's were in effect 
at the time of the 'blur.' If a modifier key was also in effect, then we 
would not change pane's. Only if it was a 'tab forward' so to speak 
(provided you were on the last tab).

>>Also, the current tabbed_pane widget doesn't play nice when used in
>>forms. It seems as though it was intended as a display only
>>mechanism. I would like to chance it's current behavior which is to
>>actually sub out the content of the pane (it basically does DOM
>>node swapping) for a different one, to a system where the
>>visibility of a pane is determined by a CSS style of hidden /
>>visible = false, whatever it is. This would have the benefit that
>>the form fields would actually exist in the DOM then when a submit
>>was done.
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>I think this makes some sense. Although this brings up the question of 
>whether or not all tabs are treated as a single form or multiple 
>forms?
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Ya, this I don't know about.... for now I'm happy that we're ahead of 
the old tabbed_pane widget (we have this working with the hidden div 
thing now).



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