FocusModel too restricted?

[Werner Lehmann]

Jonathan,

appreciate your elaborate answer. I arrived at the same conlusion, not 
to use the "official" FocusModel. There wasn't any hope to get changes 
for 2.2 anyway. It just felt as if it could have been a good match 
because a subset of it would fit perfectly, namely the focused item 
property and methods to focus the next/prev item. I wouldn't have 
supported a pluggable focusmodel anyway, there's not much to gain from that.

In the end I guess my point is that TreeView and TreeTableView would 
have benefitted from the above mentioned subset with item-based focusing 
as well. In a treeview you don't really care about the focused index. I 
think. Especially if it changes everytime something is expanded or 
collapsed. And ListView etc. would extend that simple focusmodel to add 
index-based focus operations.

As to the "fake" focus inside a listview vs this property sheet 
component: currently I am supporting something like a focused row with 
property name and editor. This row is highlighted and can be 
(fake-)focused even if the property editor is disabled. So it is similar 
to a Listview. Basically, having a fake focus does not mean I cannot 
have a "real" focus on a property editor, too ;-)

Werner