On selecting a property, the pane gets focused (at least, thats what all the other panes do except

dataGrid

)

general question... Mnemonic of a Tab... I don't think it's possible? Is that right? I've seen some suggestions such as this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26915259/javafx-setting-a-tab-mnemonics

@jchildress I think you'd have to use a listener on the parent component and select the tab programmatically based on the keypress.

got it, thanks.. just wanted to make sure i wasn't missing something...

@pim If what you want is to detect selection changes, you should use the selectedProperty in every component.

@pim Focus change will occur if you hit tab for example, but selection will not change (for other components that is, since data grid doesn't implement a focus model)

@edvin I need to bind

focusedProperty

specifically, since I need to remember what pane was last used

@edvin then I use

selectionModel.selectedItemProperty

for the selection.

I just noticed that a

dataGrid

does not get focused upon usage and this broke my code since it depends on this event

A

listView

for example gets a small blue border when clicking on it,

dataGrid

does not 🤔

@pim What do you mean by what pane was last used?

Trying to figure out where TableView handles focus on click. Focus will switch back and forth between cells and the TableView itself it seems.

Maybe it's easier to look at

listView

. It received focus upon any click inside its Region (on a Child or not) and keeps the focus.

TableView doesn't keep the focus if a cell takes it it seems.

Can you try to add this code to your project:

@User uploaded a file: Untitled

Add it on the datagrid instance.

Why the check for

isFocusTraversable

? That indicates if you can tab to it right

@pim I've tracked the last focused / selected item before like you're doing when I implemented a toolbar. the toolbar operands were the last focused / selected item, but the toolbar button immediately grabs the focus when I hovered to press it

@pim If a component isn't focusTraversable it should not receive focus on click.

@pim I've committed a fix now, if you want to try it by building the latest 🙂

@edvin now it fires a

false

and a

true

on every click, works but not exactly clean

@carlw sounds like my problem, indeed

@pim That's not what happens in my test. Sure you added to the correct node? Try removing it and build from source instead.

Okey

@pim i have a few projects that sound similar. two clients have graphical selections that are both driven by and drive other panels

@pim What Carl describes is not a problem for you, since you can listen to the focusedProperty of your two panes and determine which got focus last. It doesn't matter that a child component grabs focus after that.

No but I had to save the last focus since the buttons would grab the focus

@edvin my problem was with a textfield. i was using the focus to go back over the control and scrape out the text

Anyway, the

false

into

true

on each click persists 😞