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GnomeDateEdit (test-gnome, "date edit")

 
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GnomeDateEdit
Bug #70200

Status at
31-Jan-02

Bugzilla Patch? 

N/A N/A TBD Focus into date entry field from previous control : Tab

Focus from either entry field to following button: Tab

Focus out of either button to following control: Tab

Focus to other control in window from either entry field or menu button: Alt+access key
 

Tab: broken -- focus disappears from entry control/dropdown list, but it doesn't go anywhere else instead, leaving user in a black hole.

Alt+access key: TBD

Activate menu button:  Spacebar, when focused Spacebar: OK, just not way of getting focus there in the first place
Selecting a time:

Select time from option menu: Spacebar

Cancel option menu without changing time: Esc

 

Selecting a time:

Spacebar: Broken: selects time, but doesn't leave focus on option menu.  This might be okay if it always went into corresponding entry field instead, but in test-gnome it seems to go to previously-focused widget, E.g. it's easy to make focus return to the Calendar entry field or menu button instead.

Esc: Broken:  Same problem, focus returns to previously-focused widget instead of staying on option menu or returning to corresponding entry field.

Selecting a date:

When Calendar button is activated with spacebar, keyboard focus should move into current month display, with currently-selected date focused.

Cycle through Previous Month, Next Month, Previous Year, Next Year buttons and main calendar view: Tab, Shift+Tab

Select date within current month:  Arrow keys should move and select simultaneously.

Cancel date selection without change: Esc

Selecting a date:

No focus indicator:   focus moves to current month display, but there is no focus indicator to show this.
 
 

Tab: Not implemented.  Currently no way to give focus to Month and Year selection buttons from keyboard.

Select date: broken.  Currently have to use arrow keys to move focus, then Spacebar to select.  This model is fine where ranges of dates are being selected, but in the context of this widget only one date can be selected, so focus movement and selection should be simultaneous.

Esc: OK

 


 

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