#1353 TAB key put back to switching windows

[Iain Clarke]

I have two changes I thinking of making, which are related for my use case of embedding a readonly scintilla control in a dialog, as a syntax highlighting static control.

The first is getting the Tab key back to switching between controls.

I can see two ways of doing it - the first is a SCI_SETTABTONAVIGATION, bool function, but that seems a bit kludgy.

The second would be a new internal action, so you could do:
SendMessage (SCI_ASSIGNCMDKEY, SCK_TAB, SCI_DIALOGNAVIGATEFORWARD);
SendMessage (SCI_ASSIGNCMDKEY, SCK_TAB | SCI_SHIFT<<16, SCI_DIALOGNAVIGATEBACKWARDS);

The second would be my preference.

I am happy / competent (I think) to do this - this is a which is the preferred method, and am I missing something question.

[Neil Hodgson]

In SciTE, the instance of Scintilla in About SciTE can be tabbed from and to. I can't recall all the elements that go into this but start with the WS_TABSTOP window style bit.

[Iain Clarke]

CWnd* pChild = new CWnd;
if (!pChild->Create(L"Scintilla", L"", WS_CHILD | WS_TABSTOP | WS_VISIBLE | WS_BORDER, CRect(40, 10, 30, 30), pParentWnd, 100))
{
delete pChild;
return nullptr;
}
pChild->SendMessage(SCI_CLEARCMDKEY, SCK_TAB);

I already had WS_TABSTOP set, and it's not tabbing out regardless of whether I have cleared SCK_TAB or not. But I shall dig into SciTE and see what "magic" I have missed.

/Iain.

From: Neil Hodgson [mailto:nyamatongwe@users.sourceforge.net]
Sent: 13 May 2020 00:14
To: [scintilla:feature-requests] 1353@feature-requests.scintilla.p.re.sourceforge.net
Subject: [scintilla:feature-requests] #1353 TAB key put back to switching windows

In SciTE, the instance of Scintilla in About SciTE can be tabbed from and to. I can't recall all the elements that go into this but start with the WS_TABSTOP window style bit.

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[feature-requests:#1353]https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/1353/ TAB key put back to switching windows

Status: open
Group: Initial
Created: Tue May 12, 2020 11:07 AM UTC by Iain Clarke
Last Updated: Tue May 12, 2020 11:07 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

I have two changes I thinking of making, which are related for my use case of embedding a readonly scintilla control in a dialog, as a syntax highlighting static control.

The first is getting the Tab key back to switching between controls.

I can see two ways of doing it - the first is a SCI_SETTABTONAVIGATION, bool function, but that seems a bit kludgy.

The second would be a new internal action, so you could do:
SendMessage (SCI_ASSIGNCMDKEY, SCK_TAB, SCI_DIALOGNAVIGATEFORWARD);
SendMessage (SCI_ASSIGNCMDKEY, SCK_TAB | SCI_SHIFT<<16, SCI_DIALOGNAVIGATEBACKWARDS);

The second would be my preference.

I am happy / competent (I think) to do this - this is a which is the preferred method, and am I missing something question.

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[Iain Clarke]

I found the code that makes it work for SciTE:
LRESULT CALLBACK CreditsWndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) {
if (uMsg == WM_GETDLGCODE)
return DLGC_STATIC | DLGC_WANTARROWS | DLGC_WANTCHARS;
This only allows characters and arrow keys in to the scintilla control in the first place.

This may be fiddly for me to implement, but fiddly is fine. This feature request can be closed as "shoo!".

Regards,

Iain.

From: Neil Hodgson [mailto:nyamatongwe@users.sourceforge.net]
Sent: 13 May 2020 00:14
To: [scintilla:feature-requests] 1353@feature-requests.scintilla.p.re.sourceforge.net
Subject: [scintilla:feature-requests] #1353 TAB key put back to switching windows

In SciTE, the instance of Scintilla in About SciTE can be tabbed from and to. I can't recall all the elements that go into this but start with the WS_TABSTOP window style bit.

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[feature-requests:#1353]https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/1353/ TAB key put back to switching windows

Status: open
Group: Initial
Created: Tue May 12, 2020 11:07 AM UTC by Iain Clarke
Last Updated: Tue May 12, 2020 11:07 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

I have two changes I thinking of making, which are related for my use case of embedding a readonly scintilla control in a dialog, as a syntax highlighting static control.

The first is getting the Tab key back to switching between controls.

I can see two ways of doing it - the first is a SCI_SETTABTONAVIGATION, bool function, but that seems a bit kludgy.

The second would be a new internal action, so you could do:
SendMessage (SCI_ASSIGNCMDKEY, SCK_TAB, SCI_DIALOGNAVIGATEFORWARD);
SendMessage (SCI_ASSIGNCMDKEY, SCK_TAB | SCI_SHIFT<<16, SCI_DIALOGNAVIGATEBACKWARDS);

The second would be my preference.

I am happy / competent (I think) to do this - this is a which is the preferred method, and am I missing something question.

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[Neil Hodgson]

Closing as user resolved their issue.