Enable tabbing between editboxes?

[Lilithurian]

I'm developing an add-on that has several editboxes to gather input. They work fine, the only thing I can't do is tab from one editbox to the next editbox. I've been checking the reference for editboxes but can't seem to find anything useful.

Here's how the add-on looks:
http://www.loretorfs.be/thesis/addon...e-addon-v0-02/

Does it have anything to do with layering or positioning, or is it just a value that I forgot to add?

Thanks,

[lilsparky]

Originally Posted by Lilithurian I'm developing an add-on that has several editboxes to gather input. They work fine, the only thing I can't do is tab from one editbox to the next editbox. I've been checking the reference for editboxes but can't seem to find anything useful. Here's how the add-on looks: http://www.loretorfs.be/thesis/addon...e-addon-v0-02/ Does it have anything to do with layering or positioning, or is it just a value that I forgot to add? Thanks,

i don't think that's built-in to edit boxes. there is a "tab entered" event that edit boxes get, but beyond that i think you must handle the focus change yourself.

just have each editbox point to the next edit box in the tab list (editBox1.next = editBox2) and then when you get a tab event, just set focus for the editBox.next field.

[Fodaro]

In the Blizzard EditingUI addon, they have their edit boxes handle the OnTabPressed event like this:

<OnTabPressed>
	EditBox_HandleTabbing(self, EditingFrameAnchorBar.TabList);
</OnTabPressed>

Then in the lua file, EditingFrameAnchorBar.TabList is an array like this:

EditingFrameAnchorBar.TabList = {
	"EditingEditBox",	-- FODARO: Actually in title bar.
	"EditingEditAnchorPoint",
	"EditingEditRelativeTo",
	"EditingEditRelativePoint",
	"EditingEditX",
	"EditingEditY",
	"EditingEditWidth",
	"EditingEditHeight"
};

I've changed that code a bit when I was making the addOn work, so it should be up to date.

[Lilithurian]

Thanks for your swift response.

Could you please explain what the values in the array are for? Are they supposed to be standard like that or should I change anything?

When I use your provided code like that it says "attempt to index global 'EditingFrameAnchorBar' (a nil value)".

EditingFrameAnchorBar.TabList = {
	"EditingEditBox",	-- FODARO: Actually in title bar.
	"EditingEditAnchorPoint",
	"EditingEditRelativeTo",
	"EditingEditRelativePoint",
	"EditingEditX",
	"EditingEditY",
	"EditingEditWidth",
	"EditingEditHeight"
};

[Fodaro]

Originally Posted by Lilithurian When I use your provided code like that it says "attempt to index global 'EditingFrameAnchorBar' (a nil value)".

You need to create a custom array to use instead of EditingFrameAnchorBar.TabList. The strings are simply the names of the text boxes, in the sequence you want to tab through them in. For example, in the window in your screenshot, you might have a tab list like this:

{
	"ProfileName",
	"ProfileCharacters",
	"ProfileStatus",
	"ProfileAge",
	"ProfileGender",
	-- Etcetera
}

Then, when the cursor is in the characters box and tab is pressed, the cursor will move to the status box, and then to the status box, and so on. In my first bit of code, I stored the array in the frame, but you can do that how you like.

[Lilithurian]

Thank you very much for your help.