[Feat]: watchFocus option

[S-Shingler]

Hi David,

Firstly, thank you for an awesome package!

I went more in depth regarding my issue in this discussion:

• [Feat]: watchFocus option #936

Essentially I need a way to override the default slide focus behaviour for some accessibility work I've been doing.

A watchFocus option feels natural to me but curious to hear your thoughts.

Cheers,
Sam

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Closes:

• [Feat]: watchFocus option #936
• [Bug]: AutoScroll position jumps when clicked and dragged #764
• [Feat]: Custom accessibility behaviour and SlideFocus focus listener #642
• [Help]: Disable carousel navigation on tab #822
• [Help]: Disable any keyboard event for sliding #854

[davidjerleke]

Thanks for your contribution @S-Shingler 👍🏻,

I’m on vacation so I will review and test this when I’m back. Thank you for your patience.

[S-Shingler]

No worries, enjoy your vacation!

[davidjerleke]

Hi @Mitch-At-Work,

Thanks for your input. I think it's better to create a separate discussion if you're unsure about how the current focus behavior is operating. By all means, what you're mentioning could be a bug but it could also be by design and you might be misunderstanding the feature.

I think it makes sense to not aim for just opting out of this feature if it's causing you trouble, but rather creating a discussion with a CodeSandbox along with clear steps to reproduce the behavior you think is problematic. This way, if it turns out to be a bug, we can fix the bug and improve the library. If not, you might better understand why it works the way it does.

With that said, this feature is on the roadmap and I will review and test this PR as soon as possible so it's upcoming:

• [Feat]: ⭐ Roadmap #841

[davidjerleke]

Hi @S-Shingler,

I've made some modifications in order to align the watchFocus option structure with the other watchers like watchResize, watchDrag and watchSlides. I think this feature is ready for a release but I would appreciate if you would try it out before we do so I haven't missed anything obvious.

In you local environment, you can try any of the three playgrounds and test the new feature out:

• yarn start:vanilla (starts the vanilla playground)
• yarn start:react (starts the react playground)
• yarn start:solid (starts the solid playground)

All environments live in this folder: <your_root_folder>/playgrounds/. Let me know how it goes!

Thanks in advance.

[S-Shingler]

Hi @davidjerleke,

Everything is looking good.

Cheers,
Sam

[davidjerleke]

@S-Shingler, @Mitch-At-Work, this feature has been included in the v8.2.0 release. Thanks a lot for your contribution 💫!

[S-Shingler]

@S-Shingler, @Mitch-At-Work, this feature has been included in the v8.2.0 release. Thanks a lot for your contribution 💫!

That's awesome, thank you! @davidjerleke