Java tutorial
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT; import org.eclipse.swt.events.TraverseEvent; import org.eclipse.swt.events.TraverseListener; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text; public class TextTraverseListenerTab { public static void main(String[] args) { Display display = new Display(); Shell shell = new Shell(display); shell.setBounds(10, 10, 200, 200); Text text1 = new Text(shell, SWT.MULTI | SWT.WRAP); text1.setBounds(10, 10, 150, 50); text1.setText("Tab will traverse out from here."); text1.addTraverseListener(new TraverseListener() { public void keyTraversed(TraverseEvent e) { if (e.detail == SWT.TRAVERSE_TAB_NEXT || e.detail == SWT.TRAVERSE_TAB_PREVIOUS) { e.doit = true; } } }); Text text2 = new Text(shell, SWT.MULTI | SWT.WRAP); text2.setBounds(10, 100, 150, 50); text2.setText("But Tab will NOT traverse out from here (Ctrl+Tab will)."); shell.open(); while (!shell.isDisposed()) { if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep(); } display.dispose(); } }