do we need to grab keyboard focus on SearchBar open?

[rmallah]

Hi I have a situation where the opening screen of an app has a SearchBox
which should start in open state. I have put persistent: true as i do not want
it to be closable.

I find that i am having to call open() explicitly to show the searchbox , firstly is it necessary ?

in doing so the inputbox grabs focus and the OSK in the mobile device opens . Subsequently
as soon as the app starts the keyboard also opens automatically. I am not sure if i have
erred somewhere , but i feel we should not forceActiveFocus() in open (Line: 105)

fluid/src/imports/controls/SearchBar.qml

Line 105 in 0f1c8b5

searchTextField.forceActiveFocus();

[plfiorini]

If you set persistent: true the search bar will be automatically open but the text input won't be focused until you call open().

Try changing SearchBar.qml so that searchTextField.focus is true when persistent is true and see if the OSK is still open when the app starts.

[rmallah]

If you set persistent: true the search bar will be automatically open but the text input won't be focused until you call open().

The above is the desired behavior i am looking for.lemme check if it is really so
i will try to do it in the demo itself.

[plfiorini]

If it works then we can patch SearchBar.qml to do so.

[vimpostor]

Is autofocus really something, that would make sense to be the default?
Like if we take a look at all sorts of Google pages, like inbox.google.com, docs.google.com or photos.google.com.
All of them have persistent search bars, but they don't autofocus.

[rmallah]

I find that i am having to call open() explicitly to show the searchbox ,
firstly is it necessary ?

@plfiorini , and what about the above. Should not a persistent search box
start in an open state ? Or am i mistaken in my observation.

I have also worked a bit on the SearchBox.qml in past and i am not sure
if any of my changes broke it.

regds
mallah.

[rmallah]

@plfiorini , Sorry i missed some of your comments that you made in this
thread , which i read now. I shall contribute a patch in a few days if participants
can wait , else anyone can go ahead .
regds
mallah.

[plfiorini]

I think the best way possible to implement this is to add the focus property to SearchBar as an alias to searchTextField.focus.

This way the default behavior is not changed, but users can force focus if they wish.

EDIT: Looks like it doesn't work. Doesn't work if I set focus: true to searchTextField
This needs further investigation, can't make it for 1.1