fix(w-anchor): make a control reachable by keyboard and remote, and cost one stop - #202
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onTap now answers ActivateIntent, which WidgetsApp raises for Enter, Space,
numpad Enter, the gamepad A button and select, the D-pad centre on Android TV.
No key is matched here: a key the platform adds later arrives for free, and
only onTap is bound because ActivateIntent is the primary action.
The other half is what made activation worth nothing on its own. WDiv wraps
itself in a gestureless WAnchor whenever its className carries hover:, focus:
or active:, and that wrapper was a full focus stop publishing its own state, so
WAnchor(onTap:) > WDiv('focus:ring-2') cost two presses of Tab and put the ring
on the node Enter could not reach. A gestureless wrapper is now a styling
wrapper: not a traversal stop, and it inherits focus and disabled from the
nearest anchor above it. hover stays local, because sibling divs inside one
anchor highlight independently.
The focus characterisation test reached for the nearest Focus ancestor, which
was the decorative node, so it proved the decoration could style itself while
the control the user tabs to stayed unstyled. It now focuses the node traversal
would actually reach.
Adds a Keyboard and Remote Control section covering which keys reach onTap, why only onTap is bound, and the two shapes the traversal change deliberately leaves alone: a standalone ring-styled WDiv keeps its node, and a focusable descendant still lights the wrapper's ring. Names the two upstream traversal limits so they are not diagnosed as Wind bugs.
A button the visitor can Tab to and activate with Enter, styled with the ring on the inner WDiv so the page demonstrates the one-stop shape rather than describing it.
Bumps the skill to 2.15.0 and records the widget tree change in the WAnchor reference: Actions is new, canRequestFocus now depends on whether the anchor carries a gesture, and a gestureless wrapper inherits focus and disabled but not hover. Two anti-pattern rows cover the mistakes the change makes possible: hand-rolling a Focus wrapper for reachability, and giving a ring-styled WDiv its own focus node.
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This change adds keyboard and remote activation while changing focus inheritance and traversal behavior. Remaining documentation, changelog formatting, and disabled-focus styling concerns are bounded but should be addressed before relying on the updated interaction contract. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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WidgetsApp->>Focus: Raise ActivateIntent
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The asymmetry argued in the comment ("focus has one holder in the whole tree") does not hold for the ancestor node this reads: it reports focus-within, not focus. A tappable card containing a field is enough to hit it.
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The DirectionalFocusTraversalPolicyMixin in Flutter manages focus movement within a FocusScope and utilizes a requestFocusCallback to handle the transition between focus nodes [1]. By default, this callback is designed to request focus on the target node and automatically ensure that the node is visible if it resides within a scrollable widget [1]. This mechanism ensures that as users navigate through focusable elements using a keyboard, Flutter will scroll the content as needed to keep the focused element in view [1].
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DirectionalFocusTraversalPolicyMixin to state that directional traversal
searches within the current FocusScope, while Scrollable only keeps the selected
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Two defects in the first pass, both reported by review and both reproduced
before being fixed.
The inheritance leaked. `WindAnchorState.isFocused` is focus-WITHIN, because it
comes from FocusNode.hasFocus, which is true for an ancestor of the real holder.
So in WAnchor(onTap:) > Row[WDiv('focus:ring-2'), WInput], typing in the input
lit the ring on the sibling div: the card reports focus-within the whole time.
WindAnchorState gains hasPrimaryFocus, defaulted to false, and a wrapper
inherits only that. The container case needs no inheritance and still works: a
ring-styled div wrapping the input lights through its own node.
The action map swallowed keys it could not use. A CallbackAction is always
enabled and ShortcutManager reports a key handled for any enabled action, so an
anchor carrying only onLongPress consumed the activation key belonging to the
row around it, and on web beat Space's PrioritizedIntents([ActivateIntent,
ScrollIntent]) race so the page stopped scrolling. Actions is now installed only
when onTap != null && !isDisabled, which is why _activate carries no disabled
guard: an early return would still have reported the action enabled and stopped
the key rather than letting it travel.
Three tests added, two of which failed before the fix. The disabled case is
asserted structurally rather than by pressing a key, because a disabled anchor
is already unfocusable and a key-press version would exercise nothing.
Core Law 11, the widget reference and the doc page all described the wider behaviour. Also bumps the SKILL.md frontmatter to 2.15.0, which the last commit moved only in the stamp comment, leaving the file disagreeing with itself and the distributed skill advertising the old version.
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[Unreleased] already has an ### Added heading at Line 11. Move the WindAnchorState.hasPrimaryFocus entry under that heading to resolve the MD024 warning.
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In `@CHANGELOG.md` at line 20, Merge the duplicate changelog Added subsection by
removing the later heading and placing the WindAnchorState.hasPrimaryFocus entry
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The phrase currently focused is used in two primary contexts: as a general expression of professional priorities and as a specific technical designation in software development. In a professional or business context, currently focused typically indicates the specific task, project, or objective that is receiving immediate attention and resources. It identifies the top priority in an individual or team's workflow at a given moment. In technical software development, specifically in user interface frameworks like Flutter, focused refers to the state of an element (such as a widget or input field) that is currently receiving user input or events. For example, a focus node in a UI hierarchy manages whether a component can be the target of keyboard navigation or interaction. A component is currently focused when it has been granted primary focus by the system, distinguishing it from other elements that may be skipable or inactive [1].
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Clear cached focus when disabling the anchor.
When widget.isDisabled changes to true, Focus passes canRequestFocus: false to _focusNode. Flutter then unfocuses the node. _onFocusChange returns before clearing _isFocused and _hasPrimaryFocus. currentState can therefore expose stale focus state to gestureless descendants. Clear both fields in the enabled-to-disabled branch of didUpdateWidget, alongside _isHovering.
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In `@lib/src/widgets/w_anchor.dart` at line 252, Update the enabled-to-disabled
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Both were real gaps rather than bookkeeping. WindAnchorState.hashCode had no caller at all, so nothing checked that the new field takes part in it. That matters beyond hygiene: updateShouldNotify compares two states with !=, and a field left out of == means a change to it never reaches the descendants that style on it. The second was the right-hand side of the listener's condition, which only runs when hasFocus does NOT change while hasPrimaryFocus does. That is focus moving between a card and a field inside it, and it is how the user tabs off a card. Writing it took three attempts and each failure was mine rather than the implementation's: FocusManager does mark the card dirty on that transition (focus_manager.dart:1990, nextPath.difference(previousPath) contains it), so the notification arrives. What did not work was reading a BuildContext captured before the transition, which answers from the frame it was captured in.
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A regression this branch introduced two commits ago, caught by review and
reproduced before fixing. A gestureless wrapper published only its OWN node's
primary focus, and a wrapper's node can never hold primary focus because
canRequestFocus is false there. So the inherited signal died after one hop and a
ring two wrappers deep stayed dark:
WAnchor(onTap:) > WDiv('hover:bg-gray-100') > WDiv('focus:ring-2')
Any hover: or active: class on an intermediate div creates that second wrapper,
so this is an ordinary shape and it is the exact case the change set out to fix.
Measured two wrappers deep with focus on the anchor: isFocused=false.
Republishing hasPrimaryFocus with the inherited value ORed in restores the chain
without reopening the sibling leak, and the sibling test proves it: what leaked
was isFocused, and what chains is primary focus, so a wrapper only ever inherits
from a wrapper that is itself decoration of the primary-focused node.
Also corrects a comment of mine that justified the hash assertion with a claim
this hashCode cannot make. It XORs four booleans, so any two states differing by
a permutation of their true values collide. What the assertion actually pins is
that hasPrimaryFocus reaches hashCode at all; == is what keeps unequal states
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…true Both the class summary and the field doc still said the flag is true only when the widget ITSELF is the focus. The chaining commit made that false: a gestureless wrapper publishes true while the anchor it decorates is the focus, which is the whole point of the chain. CHANGELOG.md, doc/ and skills/ were updated then; this file was not, and it is the text that shows on pub.dev and in an IDE hover. It now says what the flag means (this element or the control it decorates) and what it deliberately does not mean (containment), because the second half is what keeps a wrapper beside a focused field from lighting up with it.
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WAnchorcould not be activated without a pointer, and the reason turned out to be narrower and the consequence wider than expected.What was actually broken
Flutter already binds the keys.
WidgetsApp._defaultShortcutsmapsEnter,Space, numpadEnter,gameButtonAandselecttoActivateIntent(packages/flutter/lib/src/widgets/app.dart:1265-1269on 3.47.0, revision4cf2416426), andselectis the D-pad centre on Android TV. The intent reachedWAnchor'sFocusnode, found noActionbound anywhere in its ancestry, and was dropped. So the missing piece was anActionsmap, not key handling.The second half is what makes the first half worth shipping.
WDivwraps itself in a gesturelessWAnchorwhenever its className carrieshover:,focus:oractive:(w_div.dart:141-153), andWDivreads its state from the NEARESTWindAnchorStateProvider(w_div.dart:166). So inWAnchor(onTap:) > WDiv('focus:ring-2'), the shape of every ring-styled control:FocusNode.hasFocusonly covers descendants, not ancestors.Enterdid nothing, because that node has no gesture.Two traversal stops for one control, with the ring on the one that cannot be activated. That is broken on a desktop keyboard today, not only on a television.
The change
lib/src/widgets/w_anchor.dartonly.Actionsmap forActivateIntentandButtonActivateIntent, built once and reused, mirroring howInkWellhand-composes activation (material/ink_well.dart:852-855) rather than reaching forFocusableActionDetector. OnlyonTapis bound:ActivateIntentmeans the primary action and there is no second key foronLongPressoronDoubleTap.canRequestFocus: !isDisabled && (hasGestures || no ancestor anchor state). A gestureless anchor under another anchor is a styling wrapper, so it is not a traversal stop.isFocusedandisDisabledfrom the nearest ancestor state instead of shadowing them.isHoveringis deliberately not inherited: focus has one holder in the whole tree, hover is a pointer position and sibling divs inside one anchor legitimately highlight independently.Point 3 also fixes
disabled:in the same shape. The wrapper publishedisDisabled: falseover a disabled ancestor, so aWDivcarryingdisabled:opacity-50inside a disabledWAnchornever saw it.What is deliberately unchanged
WDivcarryingfocus:with no anchor above it keeps its own focus node. That is how a consumer styles a custom control, and removing its stop would make the control unreachable.FocusNode.hasFocuscovers descendants, so aWInputinside a ring-styledWDivdraws the ring around the field being typed in. This one was never broken and has a test pinning it.Not in this PR
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FocusTraversalPolicy, no focus memory per region, no edge behaviour. Directional movement stays Flutter's defaultDirectionalFocusTraversalPolicyMixin, which already scopes left/right to the enclosing horizontalScrollableand up/down to the vertical one, so a stack of horizontal rails behaves reasonably without configuration.Two upstream limits stay open and are named in the docs so they are not diagnosed as Wind bugs: directional traversal cannot reach a list item that has not been built (flutter/flutter#91741) and can land on a cached item scrolled out of sight (flutter/flutter#91795).
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14 new tests in
test/widgets/w_anchor/dpad_activation_test.dart, written first against the old implementation, where 10 of them failed. Five parameterised cases cover the five activation keys; the rest cover the disabled anchor staying inert, a gestureless anchor swallowing nothing, long press gaining no key, the stop count, the ring landing on the activated node, the standalone div keeping its node, the descendant reporting up, nested hover staying local, anddisabled:inheritance.One existing test moved:
test/interaction/hover_focus_disabled_test.darttook.firstof theFocusancestors, which is the decorative node, so it was proving the decoration could style itself while the control the user tabs to stayed unstyled. It now focuses the node traversal would reach.The test helper pumps under a
MaterialApprather than a bareDirectionality, and that is load-bearing rather than boilerplate:WidgetsAppis what installs the shortcut table, so without it every activation assertion fails while the implementation is correct.Gates
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