After overriding YUI calendar's link.blur() behavior AND commenting out ice.se(), keyboard focusing works as expected. See video at http://screencast.com/t/Fb2nwji7s.

However, if we put ice.se() back in, focus is lost again. So ice.se() is the second source of the problem that needs to be fixed.

Revision: 23742

Modified : /icefaces2/trunk/icefaces/ace/component/resources/org.icefaces.component.datetimeentry/calendar.js

Mircea, please review the latest code to see why the ice.se() call is losing focus in this case. If it's not an obvious fix we can discuss with Yip, etc.

After debugging the JS code I discovered that the call made to ice.component.calendar.updateProperties() function causes the focus to be lost. The function is called when the returned DOM update is applied, more precisely the script element containing the call to the function is evaluated.
While debugging further I could see how the entire HTML table representing the calendar widget is removed/destroyed and the re-added to the document. The removal of the table containing the element owning the focus is obviously the cause of the problem. Commenting out the code that destroys the table seems to fix the issue (although I don't know with what implications):

updateProperties: function(clientId, jsProps, jsfProps, events) {
Event.onContentReady(clientId, function(){
// console.log("jsProps =", JSON.stringify(jsProps, null, 4));
// console.log("jsfProps =", JSON.stringify(jsfProps, null, 4));
// logger.log("In updateProperties()");
// logger.log("renderAsPopup = " + jsfProps.renderAsPopup);
var context = ice.component.getJSContext(clientId);
// if (context && context.isAttached()) {
// var prevProps = lang.merge(context.getJSProps(), context.getJSFProps());
// var currProps = lang.merge(jsProps, jsfProps);
// for (var prop in currProps)

// }
ice.component.updateProperties(clientId, jsProps, jsfProps, events, this);
}, this, true);
}

The time selection works fine because in the DOM update received there's also an 'eval' command that applies focus back on the element submitting the time, namely the select element.

See comments in ICE-6466.

Revision: 23816

Modified : /icefaces2/trunk/icefaces/ace/component/resources/org.icefaces.component.datetimeentry/calendar.js
Modified : /icefaces2/trunk/icefaces/ace/component/src/org/icefaces/component/datetimeentry/DateTimeEntryRenderer.java