[scribus] setPageTabOrder not working as expected

Tan

2018-09-10 08:32:40 UTC

Hi

According to JavaScript API Reference and a reasonable guessing, it
would be possible to assign tab order of fields using:

for (var i=0; i<this.numPages; i++) {
    this.setPageTabOrder(i,"columns");
}

however, it complains with "NotAllowedError"

As fields doesn't seem to have a taborder property, i guessed I could
set z-index based on location (x,y coordinates) and tried the following:

for (var i=0; i<this.numFields;i++){
    var a=this.getField(this.getNthFieldName(i));
    a.calcOrderIndex=1;
    for (var j=1; j<this.numFields;j++){
      var b=this.getField(this.getNthFieldName(j));
      if(a.rect[2]<b.rect[2]){
        a.calcOrderIndex=a.calcOrderIndex+1;
      }
      if(a.rect[0]<b.rect[0]){
        a.calcOrderIndex=a.calcOrderIndex+1;
      }
    }
    console.println(a.name+"="+a.calcOrderIndex);
}

but it neither works

So far, manually setting z-index seems to be the only way to set
taborder propertly.

Shoulnd't setPageTabOrder work? May I fill a bug for that? Isn't
setPageTabOrder intended for that?

Thanks in advance.

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