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Using NB4.0 with JDK5 Launch the Create Table... dialog from a Table folder within a DB connection in the Runtime tab. The Data Type column has a combobox editor, but the dropdown cannot be triggered by any keyboard event, AFAIK. I can put focus in the cell, and push ctrl-down arrow to get the dropdown button to appear, but after that, i cannot use spacebar to pop open the dropdown, nor use arrow keys to scroll through the dropdown list This issue affects accessibility, and not to mention is annoying when trying to follow tutorials like http://www.netbeans.org/kb/using-netbeans/40/dbconn.html#createtable and not being able to do most things from the keyboard.
I still do not know how to fix this issue. If you try the demo from swing tutorial, you will see that it does not work in it too: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/table.html#combobox I know that it works e.g. in Properties tab in NetBeans. But it seems there is not fast fix.
*** Issue 64761 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Use the following steps and a fix will not be needed (I guess). 1. Put focus on Data Type column cell. 2. Press Shift-F10 3. Press Ctrl-Tab and again Ctrl-Tab 4. Press ArrowDown and select required Data Type.
You are right. BTW there is another way: put the focus on Data Type and press F2 and then ArrowDown. The NetBeans HIEs still consider this an accesibility issue, but I can't remember why right now :-) I think they expect the Space key to show the combobox list.
Checking in CreateTableDialog.java; /cvs/db/src/org/netbeans/modules/db/explorer/dlg/CreateTableDialog.java,v <-- CreateTableDialog.java new revision: 1.41; previous revision: 1.40 done
this issue will be marked as verified because it's quite old