GWT focus problem when triggered elsewhere

Question

Here is my setup:

• I have a button and a textbox
• The textbox has an "onFocus" Handler which triggers the "selectAll" method
• the button has an "onClick" Handler which does the following:
  • show textbox
  • textbox.focus(true) and
  • textbox.selectAll();

But it does not (on mobile devices). The thing is: this works in FF and Safari - but it does not on mobile WebKit. When I click the button the field gets focused and selected for a milisecond (sometimes not even that) and then returns to focus the button …

A already tried to insert a Timer which then would do the focus - does not work either.

I also tried to capture all events and prevent them - because there is an onFocus event being fired by the button after onClick. I even tried setting the focus to the textbox from the onFocus event of the button. No chance.

Any other Ideas?

Answer 1

The problem is that GWT doesn't compile Javascript code for touch devices. You will need to create your own implementation.

Take a look to this article: Supporting multi-touch events