<tab> key to move to next filter

[maxslimmer]

On the Browse Data tab: It would really enhance keyboard navigation to have either (or) both the 'enter' and 'tab' keys move input focus to the next filter field. Currently 'tab' moves to the next data cell and 'enter' does nothing.

[justinclift]

Yeah, this sounds like a good idea. 😄

[MKleusberg]

Should be fixed now - with the latest build you can press Tab or Shift+Tab to jump between the filters.

[justinclift]

@maxslimmer Would you have a few minutes to try the latest nightly build (tomorrow), to verify this works properly for you now? 😄

Not sure which OS you're on, so Windows nightly builds are here:

    http://rp.oldsch00l.com/sqlitebrowser/

OSX nightly builds are here:

    http://mirror.salasaga.org/sqlitebrowser/nightly/

[maxslimmer]

Absolutely. I looked for a build last night but I was still a little early
(still @ 0177155). I'll try it now.

[maxslimmer]

@justinclift Just downloaded the sqlitebrowser.exe.xz from the oldsch00l link you provided, renamed it sqlitebrowser.exe (assumed that's the thing to do) and tried to run it. Produced following

I'm running Windows 7, 64bit.

[maxslimmer]

And I'm still early. Build log indicates its still 0177155. I'll wait till tomorrow.

[glawrence]

The file sqlitebrowser.exe.xz is actually an archive file, so you need to extract the exe from the archive before running. I suggest something like 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) for doing the extract. I just tried this and it worked fine for me.

[justinclift]

Thanks Geoff, I forgot to mention it needs uncompressing first. 😄

[maxslimmer]

I didn't recognize the suffix and somehow my brain went to it being an
obfuscation to fool virus scanners.
Bottom line, tabbing between filter field works as I'd expect. Enter still
does nothing, not sure if that's important.
Thank you for making these kinds of improvements, it makes the tool awesome.

[justinclift]

@maxslimmer No worries, thanks for testing. 😄

@MKleusberg Should we do something with the enter key for this? eg same behaviour as tab, or maybe it also moves the cursor to the start of next line or something?

[MKleusberg]

I haven't done anything with the enter key yet because personally I'd expect it to perform some real action and not just move the cursor. So what I thought was that if we're ever going to add some other feature and bind it to the enter key, we don't break any workflows when we don't use it now ;) It wouldn't be difficult however to support the enter key as well if people would like.

[justinclift]

Yeah, I guess the question is "what do we want enter to do?".

I'm thinking the equivalent of the tab key sounds ok... but yeah, that could just be my limited imagination atm, and someone might have a better idea. 😉

@maxslimmer @glawrence @Z4us Any thoughts on this? 😄

[maxslimmer]

I could go either way. The filter gets applied on each character keypress so it's not like is required to start the filter. Plus back tabbing is supported with shift + Tab whereas using Enter to move between fields would imply Shift + Enter for moving backward and that does not seem idomatic.
I guess I lean toward leaving Enter unmapped.

[justinclift]

Cool, no worries. We'll leave Enter alone for now, until someone comes up with a Nifty use for it. 😉

Closing this issue now too, as the tab key binding bit is resolved. 😄