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<CTRL>TAB is not proper key binding for switching top components in editor. Reason: If there is a JTable(JTextArea) in Top Component, there is no way to get out from it forward as <CTRL>TAB (default key-binding) is consumend by top component. We have this problem in web.xml editor, ejb-jar.xml editor. The problem is in Properties editor as well. See the issue 56850.
The ctrl-(shift)-tab is in Netbeans for a very long time. Not sure if this is a defect. Passing to HIE for evaluation. Please evaluate and eventually reassign back to me. Thanks.
I think that Ctrl-Tab is great shortcut for documents switching. This problem could be workarounded by turning off or changing Documents Switching shortcut. Although it would be good to find a way how to use Tab for tab traversal in visual editor components as mentioned in issue 56850.
This causes a problem for all TopComponents containing JTable, JTextArea etc. See e.g. Properties visual editor.
Milan, I'm the author of Ctrl+Tab and I claim this is as designed, was agreed by HIE. I was aware of the problem like you have now when I introduced Ctrl+Tab convention. However, switching tabs is very important functionality and frequently used functionality (IMO much more important functionality for the user then getting out of the JTable in several specific top components) that it deserves such prominent shortcut, as it's significant usability gain. My advice is to workaround your issue by creating special shortcut for your focus cycle traversal in your top component or override JTable's focus policy so that it is possible to jump out fo the table using Tab only. Perhaps it could be useful to reserve special shorcut (such as up arrow + Tab?) for sloving such situations. Wrap up - I'm closing this as designed, unless you could come with some shortcur that could replace Ctrl+Tab (we tried but failed...)
A small comment: Ctrl-TAB is obviously one of few expected shortcuts that can be used for this and is common in Windows OS and apps here. There is another similar shortcut Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn used in apps like Mozilla or OpenOffice to navigate between panes.