[Jython-users] focuslost listener stealing all the attention

[Mark R. <blo...@ho...>]

Hey guys,

can anyone advise a stratagy for the following situation:

I have a dialog window which contains a number of fields.
Each field is initialised with a valid default value, and
is associated with a focusListener.
If, a user modifies a field, a validation method is called
when focusLost is detected for that field(textbox or what
not). So far so good, everything works.

However, I would like for the user to be able to cancel,
regardless of whether or not any fields contain an invalid
value. With this in mind I associated a mouseListener to
my cancel button, but
The problem is that focuslost() seems to be given
priority over everything else. Focuslost is detected before
mouse clicked over button which I find surprising (how did it
know it was losing focus before the button had registered a
click).

I figure this must be a fairly common situation and there is
probably some well defined (and probably obvious) way to deal
with it. So, if anyone can lend me some fatherly/motherly advice
I'd really appreciate it.

cheers
blobby

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