nextItemInFocusChain function not working in qml on mac? - qt

Question

I have a form where i've done a custom field that only accepts the top, right and bottom arrows.
But to accept the tab navigation i'm using the following chain of functions:
nextItemInFocusChain().forceActiveFocus()
The problem is that this is working on windows but not on mac...
I've a formulary to illustrate the problem where next to that "code text field" i have a comboBox where i want, that when the user clicks on tab in the "code text field" to navigate to.
It seems that it only navigates to other textFields, and a spinBox, like i have on the example seems to have a textField as a contentItem.
main.cpp
#include <QGuiApplication>
#include <QQmlApplicationEngine>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QCoreApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_EnableHighDpiScaling);
QGuiApplication app(argc, argv);
QQmlApplicationEngine engine;
engine.load(QUrl(QStringLiteral("qrc:/main.qml")));
if (engine.rootObjects().isEmpty())
return -1;
return app.exec();
}
main.qml
import QtQuick 2.9
import QtQuick.Controls 2.0
ApplicationWindow {
id: window
title: "Stack"
visible: true
height: 200
width: 400
Item {
id: page
anchors.fill: parent
width:parent.width
height: parent.height
Column{
width:parent.width
spacing:10
TextField {
id:textField
KeyNavigation.tab: spinBox1
implicitHeight: 30
font.bold: true
}
SpinBox {
id: spinBox1
width: 100
height: 30
editable: true
Component.onCompleted: contentItem.KeyNavigation.tab = userCodeField
}
PanelCodeField {
id: userCodeField
width: 100
height: 30
KeyNavigation.tab: comboBox
}
ComboBox {
id:comboBox
anchors.topMargin: 10
model: [ "Banana", "Apple", "Coconut" ]
KeyNavigation.tab: spinBox2
}
SpinBox {
id: spinBox2
width: 100
height: 30
editable: true
Component.onCompleted: contentItem.KeyNavigation.tab = textField
}
}
}
}
PanelCodeField.qml
import QtQuick 2.0
PanelTextField {
height: 479.9
visible: true
maximumLength: 5
font.pointSize: 12
property bool jumpOnTab: false
Keys.onPressed: {
var c
switch (event.key) {
case Qt.Key_Up:
c = String.fromCharCode(0x25B2)
break
case Qt.Key_Down:
c = String.fromCharCode(0x25BC)
break
case Qt.Key_Right:
c = String.fromCharCode(0x25B6)
break
case Qt.Key_Tab:
if(jumpOnTab)
nextItemInFocusChain().nextItemInFocusChain().forceActiveFocus()
else
nextItemInFocusChain().forceActiveFocus()
event.accepted = true
break
default:
event.accepted = true
break
}
if (!event.accepted) {
var s = text.concat(c)
text = s.substr(Math.max(0,s.length-maximumLength), maximumLength)
event.accepted = true
}
}
}
PanelTextField.qml
import QtQuick 2.0
import QtQuick.Controls 2.0
TextField {
property var linkedData
implicitHeight: 30
font.bold: true
implicitWidth:parent.width
}
Am i doing something wrong for the mac os x, or is there a workaround?

Answer 1

Open System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts and select All Controls. By default macOS only allows tab navigation between "Text boxes and lists only".