That highlights it, but the first button on the page gets the keypress

hmm, I was wrong. By setting

isDefaultButton

, the button is highlighted, and it receives the enter key if pressed. But it doesn't receive the space key (the first button in the form receives it)

I believe the space key activates whatever is focused, which is determined by the focus traversal policy. The enter key will use a default button if it is available, like overriding a submit call.

yes that seems to be the behavior... which was why I was looking for a way to make it the first thing in the traversal

There isn't an easy way to override the focus traversal policy in JavaFX (without creating your own traversal engine), but it you just want to focus the button, you could always add

Platform.runLater { button.requestFocus() }

hm, so I need an external reference to the button so I can put that in

onDock

or someplace

If it has a CSS ID or class you could do a lookup.

I wonder why the

whenDocked

version doesn't work

@kastork uploaded a file: Doesn't work

maybe runAsync

nope

I wonder if there's somehow some subsequent call to request focus somewhere else.

Focus request in JavaFX has always been a bit finicky for me.

@Ruckus

override fun onDock() {
		Platform.runLater {okayButton.requestFocus()}
	}

no joy either

Dang, I wonder what's up. I can't mess around with it now to see what's up either.

that's ok. Just closing the loop on all the suggestions

That's crazy, but I'm glad you got it working.

now, to get

enter

to do what

space

does

anybody knows how to reposition a button in a form?

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@Ruckus @kastork The initial requestFocus() is probably overriden by the framework. How is this window opened? As a modal, or is the the primary view of the app?

@Isaac What do you mean by reposition? Move? Give an example of where from/to you want to move it.

@edvin It is used like a splash screen -- it is the first panel docked in a Workspace.

... but now that you ask, it could be a modal over the first "real" Workspace panel -- that might be a better design.

@kastork I would like to play with this and figure out where the focus ends up and why. Could you wrap the needed code in a small sample app with the app class?

@edvin Yes, I'll try to do it after work today

@kastork Thanks

@kastork will your requestFocus() work if you put it in an onShown of the Stage without the extra async/ui? something like primaryStage.shownProperty.addListener( { btn.requestFocus() }

I can't remember if this has been brought up before, but it would be nice to be able to inject a component into placeholders (on tables, listviews, etc).