How to stop SWT Control traversal action
Another ah-ha moment with Eclipse…
It is quite simple but I stumble upon it before finding how in Eclipse you can stop the traversal of SWT Control from a TraverseListener implementation.
In your listener, handle the TraverseEvent event and then just
event.doit = false;
and the system will stop traversing the Controls.
Everything is well explained in TraverseEvent javadoc (but I’m guilty of not reading javadoc until I need it…). The explanation is worth a read and shows how powerful traversal can be in eclipse using both TraverseEvent detail and doit fields.