Re: [lmi] wx-2.9.5 tab navigation [Was: wx-2.9.5-rc1 regression: proposed patch(es)]

[Greg Chicares]

On 2013-07-23 10:00Z, Greg Chicares wrote:
> On 2013-07-23 00:46Z, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
>> 
>>  I've fixed this now in http://trac.wxwidgets.org/changeset/74583
> 
> I haven't tested that yet

Now I've applied changesets 74582 and 74583, and these issues
still remain:

> To reproduce:
>   [start lmi]
>   File | New | Illustration
>   focus "Riders" tab
>   press Tab key repeatedly
> Focus alternates between "Waiver" and "Accidental death benefit",
> but the Tab key doesn't reach any other control--not even the
> notebook tab, or the "OK", "Cancel", and "Help" buttons.

That behavior remains the same.

> Now press shift-Tab repeatedly. This works as expected except that
> it skips over "Accidental death benefit".

The way shift-Tab fails is different with changesets 74582 and 74583.
Now, shift-Tab gets stuck in "Honeymoon", and dozens of extra
shift-Tab keystrokes don't move it from that field.

> Let me mention a wx-2.9.3 (not 2.9.5) issue on this notebook tab
> that was never noticed before, just in case you restore that old
> version's behavior. With that old version, all controls were
> reachable with the keyboard, but it required two presses of the
> Tab key to advance past the "Term rider" groupbox, and two presses
> of shift-Tab to move backward past "Honeymoon".