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Right now if you edit a field in the ShowData component, you have to use your mouse to edit each field at a time. This is a big impact on usability. We should allow the user to use their keyboard to tab through multiple entries at a time. Making it a P1 because I believe this has a significant impact on usability. But note it's marked as an enhancement, not a defect :)
Lets do this in the end if we get some time.
FYI, the way you do this is by setting the target milestone to "future" rather than closing the bug.
I did not find any easy way to do this. I have also not seen this feature other SQL editors, downgrading.
This is mostly fixed in new Insert Dialog
Reassigned to new owner.
Created attachment 148982 [details] Proposed patch This patch allows continuous editing of multiple cells if you use TAB or SHIFT-TAB to navigate.
This looks very good! I tested on linux with the LAFs: Metal, Nimbus, CDE, Gtk. They all work. Please have a look at InsertRecordDialog.java, there InsertRecordTableUI is subclassed and changeSelection is overriden to implement the behaviour you archived here (your version looks much saner). I commented out the inline override (lines 123-146, Version from main-golden) and the behavior you implemented works correctly also in the input dialog.
Created attachment 149029 [details] Proposed patch v2
Created attachment 149030 [details] Fix insert record dialog
I've attached a new patch that removes the lines 129-144 from InsertRecordDialog.java. I didn't remove the complete changeSelection function, because it enables the 'Remove' button. This patch also fixes #206101. There's a new version of the original patch. In v1 there was no cursor when StringTableCellEditor got the focus.
I gave it another spin and this looks good - the unittest still work, the behaviour is the desired one. I think this is good to be committed. @Libor - could you please give it another look and commit it (both patches are needed)?
*** Bug 155986 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 206101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Reviewed on Windows. Looks good to me. Patch and fix applied in changeset http://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/rev/789a98ecc677 Thanks to Markus for the patch and Matthias for the review.
Integrated into 'main-silver', will be available in build *201412090001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/rev/789a98ecc677 User: Libor Fischmeistr <lfischmeistr@netbeans.org> Log: #136967: Should be able to edit multiple fields in ShowData by tabbing