Use tab to jump to next fourm field.

[Kevin Cox]

When editing fourms qpdfview ignores the tab key. It would be nice if the tab key saved the current field and jumped to the next.

I don't know how well defined "next" is with pdf documents but as long as I could loop through all of the fields it would be useful.

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

After trying several approaches, I decided that this will have to wait for a more fundamental overhaul of handling annotations and form fields since the current pop-up-based approach makes it very hard to pass around the necessary information. This will be much clearer when/if the interactive page elements are wrapped up in QGraphicsObject or QGraphicsWidget and become part of the scene where proper focus chain handling will be possible...

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

Hello again,

went at it again with a fresh head and trunk revision 1358 should have this functionality. It is still ugly as hell with signal-slot-chains, manual event rerouting and a surprising amount of encapsulation breakage and code for such a little feature. But I guess there is no one to blame for the shoddy architecture but myself... Please test and report back here.

Best regards, Adam.

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

If you find time testing this and feel comfortable building from source, there is a branch on Launchpad [1] that tries to solve these problems by handling form fields as overlay widgets which should for example make the usual tab focus chain available. This needs quite some changes and hence testing and feedback...

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~adamreichold/qpdfview/formfield-overlay

[Kevin Cox (kevincox)]

I just tried out trunk 1359 and it works great. Much more convenient way to edit a form. I will download the other branch as soon as I get a chance.

[Kevin Cox (kevincox)]

I tried out the formfield-overlay branch and the tabbing worked well. However I did find a different issue #1247389

[Kevin Cox (kevincox)]

Sorry, didn't link https://bugs.launchpad.net/qpdfview/+bug/1247389