Find a way to hook the tab key in table editors with multiple columns

[Karthick Haridoss]

Hi
I have a form which has text box, table, buttons as control. The table has 3 columns. The problem here is
1. when the table is active and the cursor is in 1st row and 1st column, if i press tab it must go to next column. Instead of going to the next column, its going to next control.
2. I want SWT table to be work as similar to MSword table.

Kindly give me some suggestions as soon as possible.

Thanks

Regards
Karthick.

[Kamesh Loganathan]

Hi,
The Jtable has a method called changeSelection that will get called if a tab is pressed on any cell. Over ride this appropriately.

[Kamesh Loganathan]

Hi,
Another way of doing it is registering the tab key to an action for the table.

Maybe this snippet may help.


Action focusNextRow = new AbstractAction()
{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
int nextRow = servicesTable.getSelectedRow()+ 1;
if (servicesTable.getSelectedRow() != (servicesTable.getRowCount() - 1))
{
servicesTable.changeSelection(
nextRow,
2,
false,
false);
servicesTable.editCellAt(nextRow, 2);
// Defect : 5859
// Exception Ctrl/Enter used on Ser. to be Est Tab
// User can using ctrl/Enter on the on on-editable cells in
// the table.
// servicesTable.getEditorComponent().requestFocus();
TableCellEditor tableCellEditor = servicesTable.getCellEditor(nextRow,2);
Component component = tableCellEditor.
getTableCellEditorComponent(servicesTable, servicesTable.getValueAt(nextRow,2),
true, nextRow, 2);
}
}
};

servicesTable.getInputMap(1).put( KeyStroke.getKeyStroke
(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER, InputEvent.CTRL_MASK), "focusNextRow");
servicesTable.getActionMap().put("focusNextRow", focusNextRow);