TAB Traversal question

[mbeardsley]

I have a Frame that I pop up (by calling Show()) when the user wants to edit something.

The frame has about 6 data entry fields, but I can't seem to get the Tab Traversal working. I have tried setting the wxTAB_TRAVERSAL on the individual controls, the panel that they are on, and the frame that holds the panel.

Strangely, when hitting the TAB key in the first field, it sounds a error beep, while hitting TAB in any of the other fields does nothing.

The documentation states for wxTAB_TRAVERSAL - "Use this to enable tab traversal for non-dialog windows".
My window is not a wxDialog, but it does popup sort of like one. Is there some other mechanism for enabling TAB traversal for a pop-up window?

I don't know if it makes a difference or not, but I am using wxFormBuilder to create this frame.

I am running wxWidgets 3.0.2 under Win7-64 with VisualStudio 2010.

Thanks.

[New Pagodi]

I'd guess you're trying to create the items directly on the frame like this:

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Instead, put a panel between the frame and the items like this:

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[mbeardsley]

I had tried that already, but I tried it again and it works. I must have done it incorrectly the first time.

Thank you, that was very helpful.

As a side note, having that additional hierarchy meant that I also had to enable the window extra style "wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY" for my validators to work. This is not a big deal, but is mentioned just for future reference in case others run into this same issue.

Thanks again for the help.

[PB]

As a side note, having that additional hierarchy meant that I also had to enable the window extra style "wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY" for my validators to work. This is not a big deal, but is mentioned just for future reference in case others run into this same issue.

Also for future reference, the style is not needed anymore in wxWidgets 3.1 and later:
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/ ... baac567e4d