g4p_controls

Class GTabManager

java.lang.Object

g4p_controls.GTabManager

public class GTabManager
extends java.lang.Object

Allows TABBING between text controls. A tab manager allows the user to use the TAB key to move from one text control (GTextField or GTextArea) to the another. This is useful when creating a 'form' made from several text controls.
The tab order is decided by the order the text controls are added to the tab manager. The TAB key move the focus forwards and SHIFT+TAB moves it backwards. Note that tabbing is not cyclic so pressing TAB on the last control does not set the focus on the first control, in fact it will be ignored. Similar logic applies to SHIFT_TAB on the first control
At least 2 controls must be added to the tab manager.

Author:

Peter Lager

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
GTabManager()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	addControl(Focusable control) Add the next text control to this tab manager.
boolean	addControls(Focusable... controls) Attempt to add multiple controls to the tab manager.
boolean	removeControl(Focusable control) Remove a control from the tab manager.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

GTabManager

public GTabManager()

Method Detail

addControls

public boolean addControls(Focusable... controls)

Attempt to add multiple controls to the tab manager. The tab order is determined by their order as parameters to this method.

Parameters:

controls - a comma separated list of text field or text area controls.

Returns:

true if any or all of the controls were added and false if none were added.

addControl

public boolean addControl(Focusable control)

Add the next text control to this tab manager.

Parameters:

control - to add

Returns:

true if added successfully

removeControl

public boolean removeControl(Focusable control)

Remove a control from the tab manager. This does not affect the tab order of the remaining controls.

Parameters:

control -

Returns:

true if remove successfully