CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

The following is a curated list of changes in the Enact spotlight module, newest changes on the top.

[4.9.0] - 2024-07-17

Fixed

• spotlight/Spotlight.disableSelector to properly update the selectorDisabled container config

[4.9.0-beta.1] - 2024-06-17

No significant changes.

[4.9.0-alpha.3] - 2024-06-05

Changed

• spotlight/Spottable to have sibling DOM node as alternative to findDOMNode API which will be removed in React 19

[4.0.15] - 2024-05-28

No significant changes.

[4.9.0-alpha.2] - 2024-05-24

No significant changes.

[4.0.14] - 2024-05-14

No significant changes.

[4.7.11] - 2024-05-13

No significant changes.

[4.9.0-alpha.1] - 2024-04-09

Fixed

• spotlight navigation from the focused element clipped by an overflow container

[4.7.10] - 2024-03-05

Fixed

• spotlight navigation from the focused element clipped by an overflow container

[4.8.0] - 2024-02-08

No significant changes.

[4.7.9] - 2023-12-08

No significant changes.

[4.5.6] - 2023-11-30

No significant changes.

[4.0.13] - 2022-11-29

No significant changes.

[4.7.8] - 2023-11-17

No significant changes.

[4.7.7] - 2023-11-09

No significant changes.

[4.7.6] - 2023-09-20

No significant changes.

[4.7.5] - 2023-09-12

No significant changes.

[4.7.4] - 2023-08-31

No significant changes.

[4.7.3] - 2023-08-10

Added

• spotlight/SpotlightContainerDecorator config option leaveFor to direct which element receives focus when the focus is leaving

[4.7.2] - 2023-07-14

Fixed

• spotlight to not show the focus effect when pointer mode is changed to false by touch while an app is loading

[4.5.4] - 2023-06-07

No significant changes.

[4.7.1] - 2023-06-02

No significant changes.

[4.5.3] - 2023-04-06

No significant changes.

[4.7.0] - 2023-04-25

Fixed

• spotlight to show the focus effect when pointer mode is changed to false while an app is loading

[4.6.2] - 2023-03-09

No significant changes.

[4.6.1] - 2023-02-03

No significant changes.

[4.6.0] - 2022-12-05

No significant changes.

[4.0.12] - 2022-09-16

No significant changes.

[4.5.2] - 2022-08-17

No significant changes.

[4.5.1] - 2022-08-03

No significant changes.

[4.5.0] - 2022-07-19

No significant changes.

[4.5.0-rc.2] - 2022-07-06

Fixed

• spotlight to not leave the restrict container after returning from another app

[4.5.0-rc.1] - 2022-06-23

No significant changes.

[4.5.0-beta.1] - 2022-05-31

Added

• spotlight an optional containerOption.toOuterContainer parameter to focus function to search target recursively to outer container

[4.5.0-alpha.2] - 2022-05-09

Changed

• spotlight to not focus on an invisible element

[4.0.11] - 2022-04-25

No significant changes.

[4.5.0-alpha.1] - 2022-04-15

No significant changes.

[4.0.10] - 2022-04-05

No significant changes.

[4.1.4] - 2022-03-24

No significant changes.

[4.1.3] - 2022-03-07

• Updated to use forwardCustom and add type when forwarding custom events

Fixed

• spotlight to correctly control focus when boundaries of an element are not integers
• Styles for debug spotlight option in samplers to work properly

[3.2.7] - 2022-01-17

No significant changes.

[4.1.2] - 2021-12-22

No significant changes.

[4.0.9] - 2021-12-15

No significant changes.

[4.1.1] - 2021-11-30

No significant changes.

[4.1.0] - 2021-11-04

Fixed

• spotlight/SpotlightRootDecorator to show focus effect after initial loading

[4.0.8] - 2021-10-21

No significant changes.

[4.0.7] - 2021-09-28

No significant changes.

[4.0.6] - 2021-09-28

No significant changes.

[4.0.5] - 2021-08-02

Fixed

• spotlight/SpotlightRootDecorator not to add locale specific classes in the wrong DOM after isomorphic build with multi locales

[4.0.4] - 2021-07-02

No significant changes.

[4.0.3] - 2021-06-18

Added

• spotlight an optional containerOption parameter to focus function

[4.0.2] - 2021-05-24

Fixed

• spotlight/SpotlightRootDecorator not to fail in isomorphic build

[4.0.1] - 2021-05-21

Changed

• spotlight/SpotlightRootDecorator to remove focus effect when touching up

[4.0.0] - 2021-03-26

No significant changes.

[4.0.0-alpha.1] - 2021-02-24

Fixed

• spotlight/SpotlightContainerDecorator to properly save the last-focused element with React 17

[3.5.0] - 2021-02-05

No significant changes.

[3.4.11] - 2020-12-11

No significant changes.

[3.4.10] - 2020-12-09

No significant changes.

[3.4.9] - 2020-10-30

No significant changes.

[3.4.8] - 2020-10-08

No significant changes.

[3.4.7] - 2020-09-01

No significant changes.

[3.4.6] - 2020-08-24

Fixed

• spotlight to correctly prioritize next spottable elements when wrapped by a container that does not also wrap the currently focused element
• spotlight to restore focus to last focused elements in an overflow container if they are visible

[3.4.5] - 2020-08-18

Fixed

• spotlight/SpotlightContainerDecorator to allow use of ref

[3.4.4] - 2020-08-17

No significant changes.

[3.4.3] - 2020-08-10

No significant changes.

[3.4.2] - 2020-08-05

No significant changes.

[3.4.1] - 2020-08-05

No significant changes.

[3.4.0] - 2020-07-29

No significant changes.

[3.3.1] - 2020-07-20

Fixed

• spotlight/Spottable to correctly control focus when elements move under a stationary pointer

[3.3.0] - 2020-07-13

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.15] - 2020-07-07

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.14] - 2020-06-29

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.13] - 2020-06-22

Fixed

• spotlight to trigger onLeaveContainerFail when leaveFor prevents navigation
• spotlight to correctly maintain pointer mode on webOS

[3.3.0-alpha.12] - 2020-06-15

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.11] - 2020-06-08

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.10] - 2020-05-26

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.9] - 2020-05-11

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.8] - 2020-05-04

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.7] - 2020-04-27

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.6] - 2020-04-14

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.5] - 2020-04-06

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.4] - 2020-03-30

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.3] - 2020-03-17

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.2] - 2020-03-09

No significant changes.

[3.3.0-alpha.1] - 2020-02-26

No significant changes.

[3.2.6] - 2020-03-26

No significant changes.

[3.2.5] - 2019-11-14

No significant changes.

[3.2.4] - 2019-11-07

No significant changes.

[3.2.3] - 2019-11-01

No significant changes.

[3.2.2] - 2019-10-24

No significant changes.

[3.2.1] - 2019-10-22

No significant changes.

[3.2.0] - 2019-10-18

No significant changes.

[3.1.3] - 2019-10-09

No significant changes.

[3.1.2] - 2019-09-30

No significant changes.

[3.1.1] - 2019-09-23

No significant changes.

[3.1.0] - 2019-09-16

Added

• spotlight support for passing a spottable node or a container node or selector to Spotlight.focus()

[3.0.1] - 2019-09-09

No significant changes.

[3.0.0] - 2019-09-03

Fixed

• spotlight TypeScript signatures

[3.0.0-rc.4] - 2019-08-22

No significant changes.

[3.0.0-rc.3] - 2019-08-15

Fixed

• spotlight to attempt to restore focus to an element nearest the pointer position when the pointer hides within an overflow container

[3.0.0-rc.2] - 2019-08-08

No significant changes.

[3.0.0-rc.1] - 2019-07-31

Changed

• spotlight containers to include nodes identified on the aria-owns attribute of the container node as candidates within that container

Fixed

• spotlight to attempt to restore focus through ancestor containers when the pointer hides

[3.0.0-beta.2] - 2019-07-23

No significant changes.

[3.0.0-beta.1] - 2019-07-15

Fixed

• spotlight/SpotlightContainerDecorator to correctly forward onFocusCapture and onBlurCapture events

[3.0.0-alpha.7] - 2019-06-24

No significant changes.

[3.0.0-alpha.6] - 2019-06-17

No significant changes.

[3.0.0-alpha.5] - 2019-06-10

No significant changes.

[3.0.0-alpha.4] - 2019-06-03

No significant changes.

[3.0.0-alpha.3] - 2019-05-29

No significant changes.

[3.0.0-alpha.2] - 2019-05-20

No significant changes.

[3.0.0-alpha.1] - 2019-05-15

Changed

• spotlight/Spottable to allow disabled items to be focused

[2.6.0] - ???

Fixed

• spotlight to unspot the current element when tapping on non-spottable target on touch platforms

[2.5.3] - 2019-06-06

No significant changes.

[2.5.2] - 2019-04-23

No significant changes.

[2.5.1] - 2019-04-09

No significant changes.

[2.5.0] - 2019-04-01

Fixed

• spotlight to guard against runtime errors caused by attempting to access containers that do not exist
• spotlight/Spottable to prevent unnecessary updates due to focus and blur changes

[2.4.1] - 2019-03-11

Fixed

• spotlight to remain in pointer mode when any 'cancel' key (e.g. Escape or back button) is pressed

[2.4.0] - 2019-03-04

Fixed

• spotlight/Spottable to prevent unnecessary updates due to focus changes

[2.3.0] - 2019-02-11

Added

• spotlight/Spottable property selectionKeys

Fixed

• spotlight to improve prioritization of the contents of spotlight containers within overflow containers
• spotlight/Spottable and spotlight/SpotlightContainerDecorator to prevent focus when spotlightDisabled is set
• spotlight/Spottable to prevent emitting multiple click events when certain node types are selected via 5-way enter

[2.2.9] - 2019-01-11

No significant changes.

[2.2.8] - 2018-12-06

Fixed

• spotlight to focus correctly within an overflow container in which the first element is another container without spottable children

[2.2.7] - 2018-11-21

No significant changes.

[2.2.6] - 2018-11-15

No significant changes.

[2.2.5] - 2018-11-05

No significant changes.

[2.2.4] - 2018-10-29

No significant changes.

[2.2.3] - 2018-10-22

Fixed

• spotlight selection of elements clipped by an overflow container

[2.2.2] - 2018-10-15

No significant changes.

[2.2.1] - 2018-10-09

Fixed

• spotlight navigation into an overflow container which contains elements or containers larger than the container's bounds

[2.2.0] - 2018-10-02

Changed

• spotlight to not explicitly blur() the currently focused element when focusing another, allowing the platform to manage blurring before focus

Fixed

• spotlight to correctly set focus when the window is activated
• spotlight to correctly set focus when entering a restricted container

[2.1.4] - 2018-09-17

Fixed

• spotlight/Spottable to respect paused state when it becomes enabled

[2.1.3] - 2018-09-10

No significant changes.

[2.1.2] - 2018-09-04

Fixed

• spotlight to prevent default browser scrolling behavior when focusing elements within a spotlight container configured with overflow: true

[2.1.1] - 2018-08-27

Fixed

• spotlight to correctly handle focus with 'self-only' containers
• spotlight/SpotlightContainerDecorator to unmount config instead of remove when spotlightId is changed if it preserves id

[2.1.0] - 2018-08-20

No significant changes.

[2.0.2] - 2018-08-13

Fixed

• spotlight to update pointer mode after hiding webOS VKB

[2.0.1] - 2018-08-01

Fixed

• spotlight to not blur when pointer leaves floating webOS app while paused

[2.0.0] - 2018-07-30

Changed

• spotlight to default to 5-way mode on initialization

Fixed

• spotlight to blur when pointer leaves floating webOS app
• spotlight to prevent changing the active container when the currently active container is restricted is "self-only"

[2.0.0-rc.3] - 2018-07-23

Fixed

• spotlight to track pointer mode while paused

[2.0.0-rc.2] - 2018-07-16

Added

• spotlight debugging to visualize which components will be targeted as the next component for any 5-way direction

[2.0.0-rc.1] - 2018-07-09

No significant changes.

[2.0.0-beta.9] - 2018-07-02

No significant changes.

[2.0.0-beta.8] - 2018-06-25

Fixed

• spotlight/Spottable to retain focus for disabled component after updates
• spotlight/Spottable to emulate onMouseUp events that occur immediately after a non-enter key press
• spotlight/Spottable to prevent scroll on focus on webOS

[2.0.0-beta.7] - 2018-06-11

No significant changes.

[2.0.0-beta.6] - 2018-06-04

Fixed

• spotlight to provide more natural 5-way behavior
• spotlight to handle pointer events only when pointer has moved
• spotlight to update the last focused container when unable to set focus within that container
• spotlight/Spottable to not trigger a scroll on focus on webOS

[2.0.0-beta.5] - 2018-05-29

No significant changes.

[2.0.0-beta.4] - 2018-05-21

Fixed

• spotlight/Spottable to not make components spottable when spotlightDisabled is set

[2.0.0-beta.3] - 2018-05-14

Fixed

• spotlight to retry setting focus when the window is activated
• spotlight handling of 5-way events after the pointer hides

[2.0.0-beta.2] - 2018-05-07

Fixed

• spotlight/Spottable to not add a focused state when a component had already been set as disabled

[2.0.0-beta.1] - 2018-04-29

Changed

• spotlight/Spottable to retain focus on a component when it becomes disabled while focused

[2.0.0-alpha.8] - 2018-04-17

No significant changes.

[2.0.0-alpha.7 - 2018-04-03]

Fixed

• spotlight to partition and prioritize next spottable elements for more natural 5-way behavior

[2.0.0-alpha.6] - 2018-03-22

Removed

• spotlight/SpotlightContainerDecorator prop containerId, to be replaced by spotlightId

Added

• spotlight/Pause module which acts as a semaphore for spotlight pause state
• spotlight/Spottable prop spotlightId to simplify focusing components

Changed

• spotlight/Spotlight.focus to support focusing by spotlightId
• spotlight container attributes data-container-disabled and data-container-muted to be data-spotlight-container-disabled and data-spotlight-container-muted, respectively

[2.0.0-alpha.5] - 2018-03-07

No significant changes.

[2.0.0-alpha.4] - 2018-02-13

Fixed

• spotlight/Spottable to not remove tabindex from unspottable components to allow blur events to propagate as expected when a component becomes disabled
• spotlight/Spottable to prevent unnecessary updates due to focus changes

[2.0.0-alpha.3] - 2018-01-18

No significant changes.

[2.0.0-alpha.2] - 2017-08-29

No significant changes.

[2.0.0-alpha.1] - 2017-08-27

No significant changes.

[1.15.0] - 2018-02-28

No significant changes.

[1.14.0] - 2018-02-23

No significant changes.

[1.13.4] - 2018-07-30

No significant changes.

[1.13.3] - 2018-01-16

No significant changes.

[1.13.2] - 2017-12-14

Fixed

• spotlight to guard against accessing unconfigured container configurations

[1.13.1] - 2017-12-06

No significant changes.

[1.13.0] - 2017-11-28

No significant changes.

[1.12.2] - 2017-11-15

Fixed

• spotlight to handle non-5-way keys correctly to focus on next 5-way keys
• spotlight/Spottable to forward onMouseEnter and onMouseLeave

[1.12.1] - 2017-11-07

No significant changes.

[1.12.0] - 2017-10-27

Fixed

• spotlight to focus enabled items that were hovered while disabled
• spotlight to not access non-existent container configurations
• spotlight/Spottable to not block next enter key when focus is moved while pressing enter

[1.11.0] - 2017-10-24

Changed

• spotlight to handle key events to preserve pointer mode for specific keys

Fixed

• spotlight to not require multiple 5-way key presses in order to change focus after the window regains focus

[1.10.1] - 2017-10-16

Fixed

• spotlight.Spotlight method focus() to prevent focusing components within containers that are being removed

[1.10.0] - 2017-10-09

Fixed

• spotlight.Spotlight method focus() to verify that the target element matches its container's selector rules prior to setting focus

[1.9.3] - 2017-10-03

• spotlight.Spotlight method focus() to verify that the target element matches its container's selector rules prior to setting focus

[1.9.2] - 2017-09-26

No significant changes.

[1.9.1] - 2017-09-25

No significant changes.

[1.9.0] - 2017-09-22

Changed

• spotlight to block handling repeated key down events that were interrupted by a pointer event

Fixed

• spotlight to not try to focus something when the window is activated unless the window has been previously blurred
• spotlight to prevent containers that have been unmounted from being considered potential targets

[1.8.0] - 2017-09-07

Fixed

• spotlight/Spottable to clean up internal spotted state when blurred within onSpotlightDisappear handler

[1.7.0] - 2017-08-23

Added

• spotlight/SpotlightContainerDecorator config option continue5WayHold to support moving focus to the next spottable element on 5-way hold key
• spotlight/Spottable ability to restore focus when an initially disabled component becomes enabled

Fixed

• spotlight to correctly restore focus to a spotlight container in another container
• spotlight to not try to focus something when the window is activated if focus is already set

[1.6.1] - 2017-08-07

No significant changes.

[1.6.0] - 2017-08-04

Changed

• spotlight containers using a restrict value of 'self-only' will ignore leaveFor directives when attempting to leave the container via 5-way

Fixed

• spotlight to not blur and re-focus an element that is already focused

[1.5.0] - 2017-07-19

Changed

• spotlight 5-way target selection to ignore empty containers
• spotlight containers to support an array of selectors for defaultElement

[1.4.1] - 2017-07-05

Changed

• spotlight/Spottable to remove focus from a component when it becomes disabled and move it to another component if not explicitly moved during the onSpotlightDisappear event callback

[1.4.0] - 2017-06-29

Added

• spotlight handlers for window focus events

Fixed

• spotlight navigation through spottable components while holding down a directional key
• spotlight support for preventing 5-way navigation out of a container using an empty selector
• spotlight container support for default elements within subcontainers

[1.3.1] - 2017-06-14

Fixed

• spotlight incorrectly focusing components within spotlight containers with data-container-disabled set to false
• spotlight failing to focus the default element configured for a container

[1.3.0] - 2017-06-12

Added

• spotlight/styles/mixins.less mixins which allow state-selector-rules (muted, spottable, focus, disabled) to be applied to the parent instead of the component's self. This provides much more flexibility without extra mixins to memorize.

Changed

• spotlight submodules to significantly improve testability

Fixed

• spotlight navigation to elements that are hidden within an overflow container (e.g. a Scroller)

[1.2.2] - 2017-05-31

No significant changes.

[1.2.1] - 2017-05-25

No significant changes.

[1.2.0] - 2017-05-17

Deprecated

• spotlight/SpotlightRootDecorator.spotlightRootContainerName to be removed in 2.0.0

Added

• spotlight/styles/mixins.less which includes several mixins (.focus, .disabled, .muted, and .mutedFocus) to make it a little easier to target specific spotlight states

Changed

• spotlight/SpotlightContainerDecorator config property, enterTo, default value to be null rather than 'last-focused'
• spotlight container handling to address known issues and improve testability

[1.1.0] - 2017-04-21

Added

• spotlight/SpotlightRootDecorator config option: noAutoFocus to support prevention of setting automatic focus after render
• spotlight.Spotlight method getSpottableDescendants()

Changed

• spotlight/SpotlightContainerDecorator to have no default for spotlightRestrict

Fixed

• spotlight.Spotlight to consider nested containers when adjusting focus

[1.0.0] - 2017-03-31

Removed

• spotlight.Spottable replaced by spotlight/Spottable
• spotlight.spottableClass replaced by spotlight/Spottable.spottableClass
• spotlight.SpotlightContainerDecorator replaced by spotlight/SpotlightContainerDecorator
• spotlight.spotlightDefaultClass replaced by spotlight/SpotlightContainerDecorator.spotlightDefaultClass
• spotlight.SpotlightRootDecorator replaced by spotlight/SpotlightRootDecorator

Fixed

• spotlight.Spotlight set() to properly update the container config
• spotlight.Spotlight to properly save the last-focused element for nested containers

[1.0.0-beta.4] - 2017-03-10

Changed

• spotlight.Spottable to prevent emulating mouse events for repeated key events

Fixed

• spotlight.Spotlight pointer behavior where upon immediately entering pointer-mode, hovering over a spottable component may result in the component not receiving focus

[1.0.0-beta.3] - 2017-02-21

Fixed

• spotlight.Spotlight behavior to follow container config rules when navigating between containers
• spotlight.Spotlight behavior to not set focus on spottable components animating past the pointer when not in pointer-mode
• spotlight.Spotlight 5-way behavior where selecting a spottable component may require multiple attempts before performing actions
• spotlight.Spotlight to not unfocus elements on scroll

[1.0.0-beta.2] - 2017-01-30

Added

• spotlight.SpotlightContainerDecorator support for spotlightDisabled prop
• spotlight.Spottable support for onSpotlightDown, onSpotlightLeft, onSpotlightRight, and onSpotlightUp properties
• spotlight.Spotlight method getDirection() to replace spotlightDirections

Removed

• spotlight.Spotlight spotlightDirections

[1.0.0-beta.1] - 2016-12-30

Added

• spotlight.Spotlight methods isPaused(), isSpottable(), getCurrent(), and isMuted()
• spotlight.SpotlightContainerDecorator property spotlightMuted
• spotlight.spotlightDirections export

[1.0.0-alpha.5] - 2016-12-16

No changes.

[1.0.0-alpha.4] - 2016-12-2

Added

• setPointerMode() and setActiveContainer() methods

[1.0.0-alpha.3] - 2016-11-8

Added

• spotlightDefaultClass to @enact/spotlight export. Applying this class to an item in a container will cause it to be the default spotted item in that container.

Changed

• Spotlight containers to spot the last focused element by default

Removed

• decorated prop from @enact/spotlight/focusable as this relationship is managed implicitly by the component decorated by @enact/spotlight/focusable.

Fixed

• Spotlight stops at container boundaries when 5-way key held down
• Several issues related to spotting controls in edge cases

[1.0.0-alpha.2] - 2016-10-21

This version includes a lot of refactoring from the previous release. Developers need to switch to the new enact-dev command-line tool.

Fixed

• Update spotlight container handling
• Inline docs updated to be more consistent and comprehensive

[1.0.0-alpha.1] - 2016-09-26

Initial release