Web and WebWorks Development

[steve_web]

I've build 2 WebWorks apps for BlackBerry SmartPhones supporting versions 5.0 and above but I can't get the focus based navigation to work - at all on my Bold 9900.

The exact same code works fine on a Curve 9300.

I have the required tag in my config.xml file:

<rim:navigation mode="focus"/>

and I've tried all possible variations of adding the special attributes to make elements navigable (although I just want hyperlinks to work e.g. <a> tags):

<a href="blah" x-blackberry-focusable="true">click me</a>

all of the links are clickable from the touch screen, but I can't scroll to them and others I've shared my app with confirm on their Bold 9900's that the thumbscroll doesn't work there either.

If I can't find a solution to this I supose I'm going to try and "rol-my-own" focus based navigation on the page by tracking mouse movements... but I'd hate to expend the effort if there is a catch to making this work.

My WebWorks SDK/Tools might not be the very latest (less than 12mo. old but I haven't updated religiously) if there were any known bugs in previous versions I can certainly update if that will help.

Any ideas?

[Pumano-]

Try use that solution:

https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/html5/documentation/ww_developing/using_the_navigation_mode_1866...

[steve_web]

Thanks Pumano- but I should have clarified that is exactly what I'm doing... and it works fine on older devices but fails on Bold 9900.

e.g. these are both in my config.xml

<rim:navigation mode="focus"/>
<feature id="blackberry.ui.dialog" required="true" version="1.0.0.0"/>

[zahirw]

I'd like to know the fix to this too

[steve_web]

I'm going to peek into "rolling my own" implementation this weekend... if I don't find an ideal magic solution... I'll post the code back here for others...

[steve_web]

It also looks like there has been some recent work on focus navigation that I see here in closed milestones...

https://github.com/blackberry/WebWorks/issues/49

I wonder if these improvements will "solve" my issue?

[zahirw]

I believe this comit is already a part of the current WW release right?