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Drop-down menus are not highlighted when selected #1680

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Describe the problem

In addition to the mouse, the Arduino IDE UI can be navigated using the keyboard. A UI element is first selected, then interacted with. In order to provide a visual indication of the navigation progress, the selected element should be highlighted.

🐛 Some drop-down menus are not highlighted when selected. This makes keyboard navigation of these views inconvenient.

  • Boards Manager view
    • Type menu
    • version menus
  • Library Manager view
    • Type menu
    • Topic menu
    • version menus
  • WiFi101 / WiFiNINA Firmware Updater dialog
    • Select Board menu
    • Select firmware version
  • Upload SSL Root Certificates dialog
    • Select destination board and upload certificate menu
  • Serial Monitor view
    • Line ending menu
    • Baud rate menu

To reproduce

  1. Press the Ctrl+Shift+I keyboard shortcut to open the "Library Manager" view.
    🙂 The first UI element of the view ("Filter your search..." field) is highlighted:
    image
  2. Press the Tab key to navigate to the next UI element ("Type" drop-down menu).

🐛 The UI element is not highlighted:

image

Expected behavior

Selected UI elements are always highlighted.

Arduino IDE version

d24a391

Operating system

Windows

Operating system version

10

Additional context

The drop-down menus in the Preferences dialog are highlighted when selected:

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