Can't set Focus

Can't set Focus

• vjn

  I don't think it's in the 1.0 spec, if that's all you have. The behaviour was clarified in one of the supplementals, so the 1.01 spec should have it.
  
  

• Lars Andreas Ek

  I assume you set the Focus with document.getElementById("xyz").state.focused="true";

  After this the Focus is locked on this button (afaik similar to using fill="hold" in markup).

  You have to put another line below this with

  document.getElementById("xyz").state.unsetProperty("focus");

  That you can move on with the focus.

  
  

• MBushell

  Maybe you should post the whole code here...
  
  
  

• indersunny

  I have a cue like this. Just didn't write it down to keep the code short.

  I added the unsetProperty because of earlier experiences where the Focus wasn't moveable to another button after ...state.focused="true".
  But I also tried without but it doesn't work too.

  I don't know how the painting is done. Could it be possible that the button isn't completely painted (after .style.display="auto") before the state.focused="true" and that's why this doesn't apply to the button

  
  

• OptikConnex

  i had

  document.answerButton1.state.focused="true";

  document.answerButton1.state.unsetProperty("focused");

  With these i can click other buttons with mouse and after this i can move with arrow keys, but i need to click and this is bad.

  With these (i write focused instead of focus...)

  document.getElementById(answerButton1).state.focused="true";

  document.getElementById(answerButton1).state.unsetProperty("focused");

  I get an error that says that answerButton1 is undefined...

  
  
  

• MrGenius

  If answerButton1 is the id of the button, you have to enclose it in double quotes with document.getElementById().
  
  

• djshades2004

  Case #2 -- "it" applies to focus. Since focus is a single global thing, if you lock focus on one button then it is locked for all buttons across all application.

  If you animate other properties with script (eg, style:backgroundColor) then only that particular property on that particular element is locked (ie, you can still change style:width on that button with markup, and you can change style:backgroundColor on all other elements with markup; you just can't change style:backgroundColor on that button until you call unsetProperty), but focus is different because it's just like the Highlander -- there can be only one.

  Also note that if you perform another script animation then you don't have to unset first -- unsetting is just to release it back to markup or the navigation engine (cursor movement).

  
  
  

• phestermcs

  This is very interesting.
  
  If I have a text input named 'input1' which is empty
  and I use script to change its value
  
  document.input1.state.value = 'preset';
  
  Then this value cannot be changed by any user interaction unless
  I do document.input1.unsetProperty('state:value');
  
  But if I do unsetProperty, its value goes to empty again.
  
  So it's impossible to preset user input boxes by script.
  
  Is this true
  
  And what if I use script  to focus more than one elements
  document.input1.state.focused = 'true';
  document.input2.state.focused = 'true';
  
  Now both of them are focused
  
  I think these behavior is  not clearly defined in spec.
  
  

• kevzn

  Yes, you need unsetProperty to remove script's control of it and let the default navigation manager handle it again.

  In your sample code, you haven't specified things like style:position="absolute" or given your div / button width and height. You need to do that.

  
  
  

• WilsonR

  I have a problem with the focus. I have a div with buttons that is not displayed at the begining. I display it with the script and i want to set the focus to one of the buttons. The button gets the focus but I can't "move the focus" to the other buttons with the keyboard arrows...

  Any idea

  
  
  

• PentagonMaster

  Peter Torr - MSFT wrote:

  Yes, you need unsetProperty to remove script's control of it and let the default navigation manager handle it again.

  
  
  "it" applies to only that particular button or all the buttons
  
  case 1)
  If it applies two only the button whose state:focused was set by script then we might have two buttons focused at the same time
  
  e.g. one set by the script and other by default navigation manager whwn user clicks on some other button.
  
  case 2) If it applies to all the buttons then the focus would be disabled in all the other buttons.
  
  
  
  Thanks
  
  
  

• Alfredo Di Patti

  
  
  document.getElementById("button").state.focused="true";
  
  This should set the button's focus attribute to true.
  But, this will not change the appearence of the button.
  
  in order to show that the button is focused in terms of "change in button apperance".
  you can definie a timing block where u take animate the button when it gets focused
  
  eg
  
  <timing clock="page">
  
  <par>
  
  <cue begin="//button[@id='button' and state:focused()=true()]"
  end="//button[@id='BTN01' and state:pointer()=false()]">
  
  <set style:border="8px solid fuchsia"/>
  
  </cue>
  </par>
  </timing>
  
  I hope this would work.
  
  
  As an afterthought , you are first setting the button to focus and then unseting it in the next line.
  This might not work..even after including the timing part.
  
  umm
  
  
  

• HSBF Lewe

  Thanks for the Answer
  
  I request you to please mention the relavation sections of specification which defines this behaviour :)
  
  Thanks in advance for the trouble :)
  
  
  
  

• sc2003

  As I mentioned before, this is cleared up in the 1.01 spec (or the 1.0 spec with supplementals). The next release of iHDSim will work properly for the setting-text-in-a-text-box case. (That is, you set it with script then immediately unset it, but the value remains and can now be modified by the timing engine or by the user).

  For the focus example, as I mentioned you don't need to unset if you want to manipulate the value with script -- your two lines of code will leave the input2 text box with the focus, and it will NOT be able to be moved by the timing engine or by the user until you unset it.

  
  
  
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