Quasar QSelect popup and input text persistent on click - vue.js

I am trying to set up a QSelect driven by user input in order to achieve an "autocomplete" behavior. There are a few examples on the official documentation and they make use of the #filter callback.
I have currently two problems:
Whenever I click outside of the input field the input text is lost and the popup disappears.
If I click on the input the current text remains, but the pop is hidden until I click on it again.
For the latter issue, one workaround is to force the popup to show upon click:
<q-select
ref="input"
...
#click.native.prevent="onClick"
>
...
onClick(){
if( this.searchFilter.length > 0){
this.$refs.input.showPopup()
}
}
However, the inconvenience is that the popup still shortly disappears for a short while before showing again. I've also tried using #click.native.stop instead of #click.native.prevent to no avail.
As for issue number 1 I haven't even found a workaround yet.
Here is a related issue, though the popup disappearing was a wanted behavior in his case.
I set up a basic Pen to illustrate the issue. Try clicking on the input or outside the input at the same height.

The trick was to use #click.capture.native and then conditionally stop the propagation inside the callback function via event.stopImmediatePropagation() See it working here

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Buefy - Close notification on click anywhere

I'm wondering if it is possible to modifiy the notification system of buefy so that it closes itself when I click anywhere on the notification, not just on the x-cross generated by closable: true.
I have been looking for solutions to change the default behavior of buefy elements, but I haven't found anything coming close (no pun intended).
Any help would be very much appreciated.
edit: I want to close the notification by clicking on it, not outside of it. But I don't know how to attach the onClick behaviour to the buefy element as a whole.
Actually you need to catch click anywhere on the page and then:
isActive = !isActive
The question how to catch click outside the element is answered here:
Detect click outside element
But watch out! Preferred answer is not working in Vue.js 2. You can try to use this package: https://github.com/MuTsunTsai/vue-on-clickout
You could use v-clickaway to detect click outside your element:
Vue-clickaway
and then set your flag to true

How can I change the styleClass of a control while also doing a partial refresh on another component?

I have a straightforward XPage that lets a user answer a question with a simple Yes/No/NA response using radio buttons. I have restyled the radio buttons to look like a bootstrap button group to make it visually more interesting for the user. If the user chooses "Fail" then they are informed that they need to do something else - easily done with a simple partial refresh to a div further down the page.
This all works fine.
The problem I'm having is that I'd like it so that when the user selects an option, I would like to add a new class of "active" to the selected option so that it highlights in a pretty colour. But for the life of me I can't get this to work and though I'm sure it's a straight forward problem, I can no longer see the wood for the trees.
My current (abridged) iteration of the radio button code is this:
<xp:div styleClass="btn-group item-result" id="edit-result" loaded="${Question.open}">
<xp:radio text="${lbl.kwPass1}" id="itemPass"
styleClass="btn btn-pass #{(item.itemResult eq '0')?'active':''}" groupName="itemResult"
selectedValue="1">
<xp:eventHandler event="onchange" submit="true"
refreshMode="partial" refreshId="actionAlert">
<xp:this.script><![CDATA[XSP.partialRefreshPost('#{id:edit-result}');]]></xp:this.script>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:radio>
<!-- other radio buttons -->
</xp:div>
<!-- other page compenents -->
<xp:panel id="actionAlert">
<!-- panel content and appropriate rendered value -->
</xp:panel>
This was attempting to do a chained partial refresh on the radio button container so that the EL would evaluate and apply/remove the 'active' style based on the document datasource ('item') value. I have also tried using dojo.addClass, dojo.removeClass, XSP.partialRefreshGet and other options. I don't mind what the solution is as long as it's efficient and works. I'd prefer not to move the actionAlert panel to within the same container as the radio buttons and I can't do a full page refresh because there are other fields which will lose their values.
Some notes:
I'm not using a RadioGroup control because it outputs a table and I haven't got around to writing my own renderer for it yet. Single Radio button controls work fine for what I need them to do.
I originally tried using the full Bootstrap solution of using "data-toggle='buttons'" (source) which sorts out applying the "active" style fine but then, inevitably, prevents the partial refresh from working.
the radio button styles are clearly not Bootstrap standard
Any assistance pointers or, preferably, working solutions would be appreciated.
You need to aim your partial refresh at the div containing all your radio buttons. Give it an id, so you can address it.
Partial refresh, as the name implies, refreshes one element and its content only. So you target the element that covers all of the items you need to recompute.
Stepping away from the problem, a couple of beers and an episode of iZombie later, I realized what I was doing wrong and sorted it out. So, for posterity, here is the simple solution that I swear I tried earlier but clearly works now:
<xp:div styleClass="btn-group item-result" id="edit-result" loaded="${Question.open}">
<xp:radio text="${lbl.kwPass1}" id="itemPass" value="#{item.ItemResult}"
styleClass="btn btn-pass" groupName="itemResult" selectedValue="1">
<xp:eventHandler event="onchange" submit="true" refreshMode="partial" refreshId="actionAlert">
<xp:this.script><![CDATA[dojo.query('.item-result > .btn').removeClass('active');
dojo.query('.btn-pass').addClass('active');]]></xp:this.script>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:radio>
<!-- et cetera -->
The many places I was going wrong:
In my code in the question, I was calling XSP.partialRefreshPost in the CSJS script of the radio button when it should have been in the onComplete of the eventHandler. It has to be chained to another partial refresh so that it runs after it, not at the same time. I did end up getting this right - but overlooked something I'll come to in point 3.
In my original attempt to use Dojo, my first mistake was to try and target the ID of the radio button, something like:
dojo.addClass(dojo.byId('#{id:radio2}'),'active');
This actually works as expected, so long as you remember that the ID of the radio button on the XPage refers to the actual radio button control and not the label wrapping; and the label is what I wanted to style. So the class "active" was being actually being added, just not to the element I thought it was. I should have spotted this in my browser code inspector except for the third thing I got wrong:
Ironically, I sorted out the first issue, remembering to put the XSP.partialRefreshPost into the onComplete - and then didn't remove it when trying to run the Dojo.addClass(). So I didn't notice the mistake with the addClass targeting the wrong element because after it ran, the partial refresh updated the container and removed the class I had just added which made me think that nothing was working.
So now I have some neatly styled radio buttons that don't look like radio buttons and it's all managed client side without any unnecessary partial refresh trips to the server barring the one where I actually need to look stuff up from the server. And the vital lesson is - sometimes you just need to step away from a problem and come back to it with fresh eyes later on.

iOS10 Safari Keyboard Popup

I have a single page web app. The keyboard pops-up everytime I click on the screen.
There are no text input boxes in the DOM at all.
How can I debug why the keyboard is popping up.
You can see examples of this strange behaviour at https://blight.ironhelmet.com and https://np.ironhelmet.com
update with a clue: A user is now reporting that rather than the keyboard, a dropdown selection spiner is popping up all the time, long after that dropdown has been removed from the DOM.
For React users:
I had the same thing happen in a React single-page app with React-Router. I didn't write code to remove elements from the DOM, but of course React does that for you.
On my site, there are React components that contain one to four input fields. After any such component appears, and then is hidden (unmounted / not rendered anymore), then any time the user taps a link, the keyboard pops up. This makes the site unusable. The only way to make it stop was to reload the page.
The workaround: calling document.activeElement.blur() in componentWillUnmount for the wrapper component around my <input> fields did the trick.
componentWillUnmount()
{
if (document && document.activeElement)
{
document.activeElement.blur();
}
}
Note that calling window.activeElement.blur() did not seem to do anything.
There's a thread in the Apple support forums about this issue:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7692319
Looks like the keyboard was holding a reference to input after I had removed them from the DOM.
I added a test when removing element to see if it was the current activeElement, then, if so, calling document.activeElement.blur() before removing it. Seems to have solved the problem so far.

safari OSX voiceover not reading aria label for input

I'm trying to get voiceover to work on safari however, it seems when I tab through elements it doesnt read out the aria-label of the new input box in a certain scenario.
Scenario:
When tabbing onto the next element and the on blur of the current element does something to the dom then it will not read out the aria-label of the next element.
Here is an example
http://plnkr.co/edit/x0c67oIl0wlQEguBIQVZ?p=preview
Notice if you take out the onblur function below then it works fine.
<input id="test" onblur="blurer()" onfocus="focuser()"/>
In this case, the issue isn't the presence of a blurer, but rather the contents of your blurer and corresponding focuser functions. Together these two functions are toggling the hidden state of a nearbye element. This is interupting the announcement. There's a role announcement that also occurs. The full annoucement (when text is populated in the edit text control) should be:
"The edited text" contents selected/unselected, "your aria label", edit text.
The quoted portions are parts you control, the other portions are parts controlled by the OS/VoiceOver's interaction with it, calculated automatically by the state of the control and other aria values.
The announcement we're getting is simply
"The edited text"
So, it's not an issue with the aria-label specifically. But rather, you are causing the entire announcement of the element to be interrupted.
When your blur and focus functions trigger you muck with the VoiceOver's response (or the OS's communication of) these events. Not sure what about your functions is causing this. Regardless, a trick that helps in these circumstances is to add a setTimeout to your code. By separating your function and the actual focus/blur event, you can allow the accessibility APIs to do their thing, before mucking with styles and such on the page. Here is an example that makes your little code snippet work. Just replace the contents of your javascript file with this:
function blurer(){
window.setTimeout(function() {
document.getElementById('myDiv').style.display = 'none';//
}, 0);
}
function focuser(){
window.setTimeout(function() {
document.getElementById('myDiv').style.display = 'block';//
}, 0);
}
In general I like to avoid setTimeouts because they create race conditions. However, setTimeouts of 0 are acceptable, because there is no race condition. You're just decoupling the firing event and the execution of your code by pushing your code to the end of the queue. When hacking around VoiceOver, setTimeout(someFunction, 0) works quite well for a lot of cases.

Using tab key for navigation in TextEdit

I have two TextEdit boxes and one custom button widget, I wish to change focus in the following order using the tab key on my keyboard:
TextEdit1 <-> TextEdit2 <-> Button
I have specified something similar to the following for each widget in order to obtain the chain above:
KeyNavigation.tab: TextEdit2
KeyNavigation.backtab: TextEdit1
My problem is however that the tab keystroke is caught in the TextEdit, and cannot be used to navigate. How can I disable tabs in the TextEdit and instead use it for changing focus?
I found the problem.
By default the key events are first sent to the item which is receiving the event - not to KeyNavigation. This behavior can be changed by setting
KeyNavigation.priority: KeyNavigation.BeforeItem
The complete code thus becomes
KeyNavigation.tab: TextEdit2
KeyNavigation.backtab: TextEdit1
KeyNavigation.priority: KeyNavigation.BeforeItem
Read about the Qml Keys element.
You can do something like this :
TextEdit
{
width : 40
height: 40
text : "junk"
Keys.onTabPressed:
{
// Write logic to transfer focus to whomsoever you want
}
}
While searching for a solution to a similar problem, I came across this option in Qt Creator and seems to solve the thing. Now I can move out of the QTextEdit object with tab key, instead of inserting a tab character into the field.
I see that the topic is old and already solved but maybe this convenient simple option was made available with a more recent update to Qt, I don't know. I just came across it and I hope it helps someone searching for the same solution as me.