QT 5.7 QML How to control which Control gets the focus within a TabView - qt

Question

I'd like to arrange for a specific control to get the focus within a TabView Tab. Its seems that the first one gets the focus regardless of what I do. I have tried setting focus:false everywhere else but it doesn't work.
Consider the following code. I have a simple column containing two RadioButtons and a TextField. I'd like to arrange for the TextField to always get focus when the tab is selected, but it always goes to the first RadioButton
import QtQuick 2.7
import QtQuick.Controls 1.4
import QtQuick.Controls.Styles 1.4
import QtQuick.Layouts 1.3
ApplicationWindow
{
visible: true
width: 800
height: 400
TabView
{
anchors.fill: parent
Tab { title: "tab1"; sourceComponent: foo }
Tab { title: "tab2"; sourceComponent: foo }
}
Component
{
id: foo
ColumnLayout
{
spacing: 32
ExclusiveGroup { id: optionGroup }
RadioButton
{
// i always get the focus!!
exclusiveGroup: optionGroup
text: "Click me"
activeFocusOnPress: true
focus: false
}
RadioButton
{
exclusiveGroup: optionGroup
text: "No, click me!"
activeFocusOnPress: true
focus: false
}
TextField
{
// but i want the focus
placeholderText: "type here"
focus: true
}
}
}
}
Press "tab2" to see this,
I tried forcing within TabView by adding,
onCurrentIndexChanged: getTab(currentIndex).item.forceActiveFocus()
But it makes no difference.
I've read the explanation of focus but it hasn't helped in this case.
Thanks for any suggestion or help,

Answer 1

Probably a bug. Try Qt Quick Controls 2.0 instead:
import QtQuick 2.7
import QtQuick.Controls 2.0
import QtQuick.Layouts 1.3
ApplicationWindow {
visible: true
width: 800
height: 400
header: TabBar {
id: bar
width: parent.width
TabButton {
text: qsTr("tab1")
}
TabButton {
text: qsTr("tab2")
}
}
StackLayout {
anchors.fill: parent
currentIndex: bar.currentIndex
ColumnLayout {
id: columnLayout
spacing: 32
ButtonGroup {
id: optionGroup
buttons: columnLayout.children
}
RadioButton {
text: "Click me"
}
RadioButton {
text: "No, click me!"
}
TextField {
placeholderText: "type here"
focus: true
}
}
}
}