Re: [ jEdit-devel ] requestFocus vs requestFocusInWindow

[Martin R. <her...@bi...>]

I remember vaguely that on some occasions (I forgot the particular 
circumstances) it helps to call not only 
view.getTextArea().requestFocus(), but also view.toFront() ...

Martin

Jarek Czekalski schrieb am 21.01.2012 16:13:
> Martin, the article you linked reminded me of something. Jedit sometimes
> doesn't properly give focus to textarea, requiring user to click it with
> mouse. Maybe it's due to excessive calls to requestFocus(). If this is
> the case, then it may be hard to track, but aiming at replacing
> requestFocus() with requestFocusInWindow() "when possible" may
> accidentally fix this.
>
> Jarek
>
> Martin Raspe pisze:
>> Jarek Czekalski schrieb am 21.01.2012 09:40:
>>
>>> Hertz, requestFocusInWindow is suggested over requestFocus. Doesn't it
>>> work in this code?
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, I wasn't aware of requestFocusInWindow() :-/
>>
>> I replaced it in two places. There is a difference, however:
>> requestFocus() gives the focus to a component even if it requires
>> changing the currently focused window, whereas requestFocusInWindow()
>> transfers the focus only if the component's window already has the focus.
>>
>> For example, requestFocusInWindow() does not work if you want to switch
>> the focus from a floating dockable to the main TextArea.
>>
>>
>>> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/JComponent.html#requestFocus()
>>> "...developers are strongly encouraged to use |requestFocusInWindow|
>>> when possible"
>>>
>>
>> Here's some background:
>> http://elliotth.blogspot.com/2005/09/requestfocus-requestfocusinwindow.html
>>
>> Martin
>>
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