Re: Stock items - toolbar label vs. menu label

[Peter Korn <peter korn sun com>]

Hi Calum,

> > If Tab takes you to the toolbar, and the second tab takes out out of the
> > toolbar, then no matter how long the toolbar is, you only incur one 
> > addition to the tab order.
> 
> This is very true, and it's actually what's in the proposal document at
> the moment.  So feel free to ignore my previous ramblings  :)
> 
> I'm still not utterly convinced about how you'd consistently get focus
> to the toolbar in all cases without a special shortcut, though-- for
> example in a typical text editor app, you have menu bar, toolbar and
> editor pane, and pressing tab in the editor pane inserts a tab
> character.  Maybe the "Ctrl+Tab brings you out of the current container"
> thing you mentioned really does always work in those situations, though
> (or should be made to).

That's the way it works in Java/Swing land.  Ctrl-Tab gets you out of
multi-line text fields (JEditorPane), whether they are editable or not.  We've
been looking at using Ctrl-Tab as a general "escape out of the current
container" - look at the situation of MDI-style windows.  Once you tab into
one, how do you get out?


Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team