Name: mt13159 Date: 08/17/2001


It would be useful to be able to tell why a component received focus
whether it was from keyboard navigation or some other means. Specifically
Oracle has implemented its own widget set. That widget set includes
a simple text field. We would like to select all the text when
the user tabs into the text field. We do not want to select all
the text when the user clicks in the text field. The Swing JTextField
has the same requirement. Right now tab into a JTextField
and all the text gets selected. Click into a JTextField and all
the text gets selected for a moment until the cursor moves to the
mouse point. Adding an API on FocusEvent would make it extremely
easy to determing if focus was received due to a keyboard navigation
event or some other call to requestFocus().
(Review ID: 128544)
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