Curosr is lost after every data entry in Eclipse ADT

[NemanjaSimovic]

Hi Community,

I have, and I believe all of you have, a problem with focusing text boxes in Eclipse ADT. After first data entry I can't use Tab key or Cursor keys to move around the screen. U have to click with a mouse in order to continue populating other fields.

This is not the case in SAP GUI. There everything works flawlessly.

I have recorder a small video and placed at YouTube to show in detail what is the problem:

• https://youtu.be/XhBXHV7hbmI (short version ~ 40 sec)
• https://youtu.be/-Ab5IHegI-w (long version ~ 4 min)
  

If anyone has a solution, that's awesome. But I believe this is a issue for ADT team.

Thanks up front for any advice.

Regards,
Nemanja

[matt]

I don't have the issue with losing the cursor. It tabs fine between fields in an embedded SAPGui. Do you have a current version of Eclipse, ADT and SAPGui?

The issue you describe where you have to click twice to get focus on a field, I can replicate. What's happening is that Eclipse gets focus, but SAPGui doesn't notice until you click again. This could equally be an issue with SAPGui as with Eclipse or ADT. I think it's more likely to be SAPGui, since I've seen similar behaviour when switching between non-embedded SAPGui sessions from time to time. SAPGui doesn't always play nicely with Windows.

[Sandra_Rossi]

Just to say, 4 minutes video is too much for me to look at it and understand what you're talking about. Maybe it's the case of many other people.

I think just 2 screenshots would be enough to explain the case.

NB: is it really an issue? As an ABAP developer I always need to switch to SAP GUI for many tasks, so if you know this case doesn't work in ADT, just run it in SAP GUI.

[NemanjaSimovic]

Hi sandra.rossi

I'll create another video. Is 20 seconds too much? I don't have a hunch so I'm asking for advice. I had to do it like this as there in no chance to capture some dynamic behavior with screenshots. But I think it's too long indeed. 😊

I do a lot of actions by keyboard, and have a lot of sessions opened. That's the reason why I stopped using SAP GUI. Eclipse+ADT is great, and I really like it as I have much more comfort. Using SAP GUI in parallel with Eclipse would slow me down, as I couldn't debug in Eclipse when I'm running SAP GUI session.

Thanks a lot sandra.rossi for your helpful comments. 👍

Hi matthew.billingham ,

I would say that I have everything up to date:

• Eclipse: Version: 2022-12 (4.26.0)

• ADT: SAP ABAP Development Tools 3.30.2 com.sap.adt.tools

I can agree that SAP GUI occasionally "swallows" clicks. Still it's doing far more better job than Eclipse+ADT. But that's something I could live easily with. 😊 Bigger issue is that focus loss when I have to populate several fields on one selection screen. I'm pretty much "old school" keyboard user, and I think this affects my daily performance.

Regards,
Nemanja

[NemanjaSimovic]

Hi sandra.rossi ,

You were right. In present times video should be shorter, so I narrow it down to 40 seconds. I thought I could do it for less, but for me it looks it's quite impossible.

Thanks again for suggestion! Appreciate!

Regards,
Nemanja

[Sandra_Rossi]

In present times, in Occident, we should (I think) consume less energy, messages, Web, goods, and so on, I'd say that text consumes a lot less than screenshots which themselves consume a lot less than video 😉

[matt]

Eclipse: Version: 2022-12 (4.26.0)

ADT: SAP ABAP Development Tools 3.30.2 com.sap.adt.tools

Yes, I'm on that too. What version of SAPGui are you on? I really think this is more likely a SAPGui issue than an Eclipse/ADT one.