Added initial support for setting focus highlighting without uisng setFocus

demo/MainWindow.cpp

@@ -609,6 +609,7 @@ CMainWindow::CMainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
 	// uncomment the following line to enable focus highlighting of the dock
 	// widget that has the focus
 	CDockManager::setConfigFlag(CDockManager::FocusHighlighting, true);
+	CDockManager::setConfigFlag(CDockManager::AllTabsHaveCloseButton, true);
 
 	// uncomment if you would like to enable an equal distribution of the
 	// available size of a splitter to all contained dock widgets

src/DockAreaTitleBar.cpp

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 #include "DockAreaTabBar.h"
 #include "IconProvider.h"
 #include "DockComponentsFactory.h"
+#include "DockFocusController.h"
 
 #include <iostream>
 
@@ -471,7 +472,8 @@ void CDockAreaTitleBar::mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent* ev)
 
 		if (CDockManager::testConfigFlag(CDockManager::FocusHighlighting))
 		{
-			d->TabBar->currentTab()->setFocus(Qt::OtherFocusReason);
+			//d->TabBar->currentTab()->setFocus(Qt::OtherFocusReason);
+			d->dockManager()->dockFocusController()->setDockWidgetTabFocused(d->TabBar->currentTab());
 		}
 		return;
 	}

src/DockFocusController.cpp

@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ void CDockFocusController::onApplicationFocusChanged(QWidget* focusedOld, QWidge
 		return;
 	}
 
+	/*
 	// If the close button in another tab steals the focus from the current
 	// active dock widget content, i.e. if the user clicks its close button,
 	// then we immediately give the focus back to the previous focused widget
@@ -243,17 +244,18 @@ void CDockFocusController::onApplicationFocusChanged(QWidget* focusedOld, QWidge
 			auto OldFocusedDockWidget = internal::findParent<CDockWidget*>(focusedOld);
 			if (OldFocusedDockWidget)
 			{
-				focusedOld->setFocus();
+				//focusedOld->setFocus();
 			}
 			return;
 		}
-	}
+	}*/
 
     CDockWidget* DockWidget = nullptr;
-	auto DockWidgetTab = qobject_cast<CDockWidgetTab*>(focusedNow);
+	/*auto DockWidgetTab = qobject_cast<CDockWidgetTab*>(focusedNow);
 	if (DockWidgetTab)
 	{
-		DockWidget = DockWidgetTab->dockWidget();      
+		DockWidget = DockWidgetTab->dockWidget();
+
         // If the DockWidgetTab "steals" the focus from a widget in the same
         // DockWidget, then we immediately give the focus back to the previous
         // focused widget focusedOld
@@ -262,10 +264,10 @@ void CDockFocusController::onApplicationFocusChanged(QWidget* focusedOld, QWidge
             auto OldFocusedDockWidget = internal::findParent<CDockWidget*>(focusedOld);
             if (OldFocusedDockWidget && OldFocusedDockWidget == DockWidget)
             {
-                focusedOld->setFocus();
+                //focusedOld->setFocus();
             }
         }
-	}
+	}*/
 
 	if (!DockWidget)
 	{
@@ -293,6 +295,18 @@ void CDockFocusController::onApplicationFocusChanged(QWidget* focusedOld, QWidge
 }
 
 
+//===========================================================================
+void CDockFocusController::setDockWidgetTabFocused(CDockWidgetTab* Tab)
+{
+	std::cout << "setDockWidgetTabFocused " << Tab->text().toStdString() << std::endl;
+	auto DockWidget = Tab->dockWidget();
+	if (DockWidget)
+	{
+		d->updateDockWidgetFocus(DockWidget);
+	}
+}
+
+
 //===========================================================================
 void CDockFocusController::setDockWidgetFocused(CDockWidget* focusedNow)
 {

src/DockFocusController.h

@@ -48,21 +48,6 @@ public:
 	 */
 	virtual ~CDockFocusController();
 
-	/**
-	 * Helper function to set focus depending on the configuration of the
-	 * FocusStyling flag
-	 */
-	template <class QWidgetPtr>
-	static void setWidgetFocus(QWidgetPtr widget)
-	{
-		if (!CDockManager::testConfigFlag(CDockManager::FocusHighlighting))
-		{
-			return;
-		}
-
-		widget->setFocus(Qt::OtherFocusReason);
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * A container needs to call this function if a widget has been dropped
 	 * into it
@@ -83,6 +68,12 @@ public:
 	 */
 	CDockWidget* focusedDockWidget() const;
 
+	/**
+	 * Request focus highlighting for the given dock widget assigned to the tab
+	 * given in Tab parameter
+	 */
+	void setDockWidgetTabFocused(CDockWidgetTab* Tab);
+
 public Q_SLOTS:
 	/**
 	 * Request a focus change to the given dock widget

src/DockManager.cpp

@@ -1140,6 +1140,13 @@ void CDockManager::setSplitterSizes(CDockAreaWidget *ContainedArea, const QList<
     }
 }
 
+
+//===========================================================================
+CDockFocusController* CDockManager::dockFocusController() const
+{
+	return d->FocusController;
+}
+
 } // namespace ads
 
 //---------------------------------------------------------------------------

src/DockManager.h

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ struct DockWidgetTabPrivate;
 struct DockAreaWidgetPrivate;
 class CIconProvider;
 class CDockComponentsFactory;
+class CDockFocusController;
 
 /**
  * The central dock manager that maintains the complete docking system.
@@ -134,12 +135,18 @@ protected:
 	 */
 	void notifyFloatingWidgetDrop(CFloatingDockContainer* FloatingWidget);
 
-
 	/**
 	 * Show the floating widgets that has been created floating
 	 */
 	virtual void showEvent(QShowEvent *event) override;
 
+	/**
+	 * Acces for the internal dock focus controller.
+	 * This function only returns a valid object, if the FocusHighlighting
+	 * flag is set.
+	 */
+	CDockFocusController* dockFocusController() const;
+
 public:
 	using Super = CDockContainerWidget;
 

src/DockWidgetTab.cpp

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 #include "DockOverlay.h"
 #include "DockManager.h"
 #include "IconProvider.h"
+#include "DockFocusController.h"
 
 
 namespace ads
@@ -207,6 +208,14 @@ struct DockWidgetTabPrivate
 		IconLabel->setVisible(true);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Convenience function for access to the dock manager dock focus controller
+	 */
+	CDockFocusController* focusController() const
+	{
+		return DockWidget->dockManager()->dockFocusController();
+	}
+
 };
 // struct DockWidgetTabPrivate
 
@@ -234,6 +243,7 @@ void DockWidgetTabPrivate::createLayout()
 	CloseButton->setObjectName("tabCloseButton");
 	internal::setButtonIcon(CloseButton, QStyle::SP_TitleBarCloseButton, TabCloseIcon);
     CloseButton->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Fixed, QSizePolicy::Fixed);
+    CloseButton->setFocusPolicy(Qt::NoFocus);
     updateCloseButtonSizePolicy();
 	internal::setToolTip(CloseButton, QObject::tr("Close Tab"));
 	_this->connect(CloseButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), SIGNAL(closeRequested()));
@@ -331,10 +341,11 @@ CDockWidgetTab::CDockWidgetTab(CDockWidget* DockWidget, QWidget *parent) :
 	setAttribute(Qt::WA_NoMousePropagation, true);
 	d->DockWidget = DockWidget;
 	d->createLayout();
-	if (CDockManager::testConfigFlag(CDockManager::FocusHighlighting))
+	setFocusPolicy(Qt::NoFocus);
+	/*if (CDockManager::testConfigFlag(CDockManager::FocusHighlighting))
 	{
 		setFocusPolicy(Qt::ClickFocus);
-	}
+	}*/
 }
 
 //============================================================================
@@ -353,6 +364,10 @@ void CDockWidgetTab::mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent* ev)
 		ev->accept();
         d->saveDragStartMousePosition(internal::globalPositionOf(ev));
         d->DragState = DraggingMousePressed;
+        if (CDockManager::testConfigFlag(CDockManager::FocusHighlighting))
+        {
+        	d->focusController()->setDockWidgetTabFocused(this);
+        }
         Q_EMIT clicked();
 		return;
 	}
@@ -515,7 +530,8 @@ void CDockWidgetTab::setActiveTab(bool active)
 		bool UpdateFocusStyle = false;
 		if (active && !hasFocus())
 		{
-			setFocus(Qt::OtherFocusReason);
+			//setFocus(Qt::OtherFocusReason);
+			d->focusController()->setDockWidgetTabFocused(this);
 			UpdateFocusStyle = true;
 		}