How to use Tab & Shift-Tab to move between text input fields?

[Michael Custer]

Geez...
I have 20 input fields and must leave the keyboard
and click with the mouse to move to the next field.

Annoying and, I think, prob unnecessary.
Simply cannot find example code anywhere...

[James Lollar]

How about a for loop, inside a class that takes your table input.. something like (maybe)
import java.io.*;
public class InputHelp{
public String getTheInput(String promptUser){
String userInput = null;
for (integer iv=0;iv<20;iv++){
// prompt user
try {
BufferedRead is new BufferedReader{
//get the line
//test the line for length
} // catch the exception
} // end for
return userInput;
}
}
//the prompt user would hold a System.out.print or prinln, looping for your
input
just a guess
JL

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Moving this to the Swing / JFC / AWT forum...

[Michael Custer]

Never mind...
Thanks for the help but I found
something much simpler...

function doTab (field, event) {
var keyCode = event.keyCode ? event.keyCode : event.which ? event.which : event.charCode;
if (keyCode == 9) {
var i;
for (i = 0; i < field.form.elements.length; i++)
if (field == field.form.elements[i])
break;
i = (i + 1) % field.form.elements.length;
field.form.elements[i].focus();
return false;
} 
else
return true;
}
</script>

Now, simply add the on-key-press event handler inside the tags as follows:
(Notice how I've added hyphens to the keyword on-key-press). This script
doesn't seem to like the real word... Remove the hyphens, lol.

  
<form>
<input type="text" on-key-press="return doTab(this, event)"><br>
<input type="text" on-key-press="return doTab(this, event)"><br>
<textarea>Some text</textarea>
</form>

[Gregg Bolinger]

Actually, this is an HTML/Javascript question. But I can see how this might look like a Swing question. It would have helped if Michael had mentioned it was a web form and not a Desktop GUI form...Moving again.