Given this: view layout [ field [print "1" ] field [print "2"] ]
When I shift+tab from field #2 to field #1, no actions are fired. How do I get them to fire just like a normal tab?
It is a bug in the key handler for field style in the Rebol/View engine. Here is a quick patch you can include in your code to fix it and make SHIFT+Tab work:
use [body f pos][
;-- patch `ctx-text/back-field` function to fix the bug
body: copy/deep second f: get in ctx-text 'back-field
insert body/2/while [if head? item [item: tail item]]
ctx-text/back-field: func first :f :body
;-- remove test that disables face/action for back-tabs
body: second get in ctx-text 'edit-text
body: find body 'word?
pos: at body/3/7/tab-char/5/6 11
change/part pos pos/4 4
]
This code will walk through View engine functions at run-time (code is data in Rebol) and hot-patch the functions bodies, by injecting or removing code where required.
If you happen to be a Rebol/SDK user, I can give you the instructions for patching the source files directly, so you can encap a fixed View executable.
Enjoy.