From 9b06f2fbd50c909c9ee1cf7a3d6c0d91508d532c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abdelrazak Younes <younes@lyx.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:04:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Allow use of Tab keys when no document's open.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@22597 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
---
 src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp
index 8668334e51..c07aa04ec0 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp
@@ -584,13 +584,16 @@ bool GuiView::event(QEvent * e)
 			// Nothing special to do.
 			return QMainWindow::event(e);
 
-		// Allow processing of shortcuts that are allowed even when no Buffer
-		// is viewed.
 		QKeyEvent * ke = static_cast<QKeyEvent*>(e);
-		if (ke->modifiers() & Qt::AltModifier)
-			// Let Qt handle menu access.
+
+		// Let Qt handle menu access and the Tab keys to navigate keys to navigate
+		// between controls.
+		if (ke->modifiers() & Qt::AltModifier || ke->key() == Qt::Key_Tab 
+			|| ke->key() == Qt::Key_Backtab)
 			return QMainWindow::event(e);
 
+		// Allow processing of shortcuts that are allowed even when no Buffer
+		// is viewed.
 		theLyXFunc().setLyXView(this);
 		KeySymbol sym;
 		setKeySymbol(&sym, ke);