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Re: How to imitate iApp floating palette focus behavior



On Feb 27, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Peter Powers wrote:


With Leopard, it's much easier to achieve a floating palette using:

	getRootPane().putClientProperty("Window.style", "small");
	setAlwaysOnTop(true);

In Apple's iApps that use an 'Inspector', the document (or target) window does not lose focus when the Inspector gains focus. Is there a workaround to imitate this behavior using Java?

Unfortunately no. To emulate this behavior, we will have to do more analysis of where the Java concept of focus matches to AppKit's model of the "key" window vs. the "main" window (two very different concepts).


This is something we'd like to be able to offer in the future, however it is not possible today.

Using setWindowFocusableState(false) is unacceptable b/c components requiring KeyboardInputFocus such as TextFields are non-functional, despite all other controls receiving and processing mouse events; it also reduces accessibility.

Naturally.

Mike Swingler
Java Frameworks Engineer
Apple Inc.
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