Qt Quick Dialog focus not work ?

[sardar]

hi

when i open dialog and set focus = true , focus not move to dialog and stay in main page and TAB key not work until clicked in one child in dialog.
how can auto move focus to child when dialog opened ?

[p3c0]

@sardar Dialog doesnot have focus property.
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-dialogs-dialog-members.html

If you are trying to bring focus to one of the Item inside that Dialog then you can explicitly set focus by setting it to true for that item.

[sardar]

thanks

Dialog Inherits from popup and popup have focus property. in Gallery example in Qt 5.8 use focus property in Dialog but it not work.

sample code in SDK samples :

    Dialog {
        id: settingsDialog
        x: Math.round((window.width - width) / 2)
        y: Math.round(window.height / 6)
        width: Math.round(Math.min(window.width, window.height) / 3 * 2)
        height: settingsColumn.implicitHeight + topPadding + bottomPadding
        modal: true
        focus: true

        standardButtons: Dialog.Ok | Dialog.Cancel
    }

[p3c0]

What is popup ? Can you point out that QML type ?

[sardar]

Dialog is part of Qt Quick Controls 2.1 added in Qt 5.8. you can see in doc.

Dialog QML Type
Popup QML Type

[p3c0]

@sardar Well I was not aware of the unreleased version. You're right. It should work. focus property is meant for that. Btw. what is the root element from where you launch the Dialog ?
Can you try using ApplicationWindow ? As per the the docs:

In order to ensure that a popup is displayed above other items in the scene, it is recommended to use ApplicationWindow.

So perhaps the newly opened Dialog would get the focus automatically?

[sardar]

thanks for your answer.

i use Qt samples in SDK, Gallery sample.
yes, Dialog use in ApplicationWindow.

[p3c0]

@sardar In your first post you said you have a child in the Dialog. You should also try setting focus to that particular child too once you open the Dialog.

[jpnurmi]

Looks like a regression caused by another focus-related fix. We'll fix this right away. As a temporary workaround, you can do for example:

Button {
    onClicked: {
        dialog.open()
        dialog.forceActiveFocus()
    }
}

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Zametuppa]

Any news on this ? On this day, it's still not working.
I want to make a Dialog that is a serial shell. In this dialog I have one textArea to display the serial frames received and sent and one textInput for writing the frames I want to send. The problem is that when I type my frame and want to send it by pressing Enter, it is also quitting the dialog as it is pressing on the "Close" button.
I can't figure how to force keyboard focus only on the textInput and not trigger the reject() signal of the dialog when pressing Enter. I tried changing the focus variable but of course, it can not "assign to non-existent property" for the reasons invoked above in this thread (temporary regression). I tried the forceActiveFocus() command but it says that forceActiveFocus is not a function (sic)... I tried to catch the key pressed event but it says "Could not attach Keys property to:" on any object.

Here is a curated snippet :

import QtQuick 2.7
import QtQuick.Controls 2.0
import QtQuick.Layouts 1.1
import QtQuick.Dialogs 1.2

Dialog {
    property alias serialExchange: serialExchange

    id: serialShellRoot
    title: qsTr("Serial shell") + translator.emptyString
    modality: Qt.NonModal
    standardButtons: StandardButton.Close | StandardButton.Reset
    height: 480
    width: 640

    ColumnLayout {
        anchors.fill: parent

        Rectangle {
            Layout.fillHeight: true
            Layout.fillWidth: true

            border {
                color: "black"
                width: 1
            }

            Flickable {
                anchors.fill: parent

                TextArea.flickable: TextArea {
                    id: serialExchange
                    wrapMode: TextEdit.WrapAnywhere
                    textFormat: Text.RichText
                    readOnly: true
                    selectByMouse: true
                    font.family: "Courier New"
                    font.pixelSize: 18
                    color: "white"

                    background: Rectangle {
                        color: "black"
                    }
                }

                ScrollBar.vertical: ScrollBar { }
            }
        }

        Rectangle {
            Layout.fillWidth: true
            Layout.preferredHeight: 24

            border {
                color: "black"
                width: 1
            }

            TextInput {
                id: serialPrompt
                anchors.fill: parent
                padding: 5
                selectByMouse: true
                font.family: "Courier New"
                focus: true

                onAccepted: {
                    console.log(this.text);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    onReset: {
        serialExchange.remove(0, serialExchange.length);
    }
}

This code is located in a separate SerialShell.qml file and is called from the main.qml file which is an ApplicationWindow.
Any idea about this particular problem (probably) related to some regressions in the dialog code ?
Sorry if this is not the good place for posting this.

[jpnurmi]

@Zametuppa You are using the Dialog type from QtQuick.Dialogs 1.2, so this is a different issue than the original poster had with the Dialog type from QtQuick.Controls 2.0. The difference between the two Dialog types is that the former is a top-level window on platforms that support multiple top-level windows, whereas the latter is not a top-level window.

[Zametuppa]

@jpnurmi Sorry for this, you are right. I haven't made the switch to Qt5.8 and was looking at the wrong documentation anyway. Because some other objects have a Qt Quick and Qt Quick 2 documentation and I use Qt Quick 2, I automatically assumed that I should look at the Qt Quick 2 documentation for the Dialog. Thank you.