<AWT Dev> Focus regression in Java8 caused by JDK-7160604

[Anton V. Tarasov]

Hi Clemens,

Sure, please file the issue. If you have an account in JIRA, please file it right there. Otherwise, 
tell us please the ID of the incident you will file and we'll accept it.

Thanks!

Anton.

On 05.11.2014 22:46, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi Anton,
>
>> I can't say exactly how the fix for JDK-7160604 could change the behavior
>> like you described (this requires some more time to investigate).
>> However, an obvious question comes to my mind - why don't you make your
>> popup non-focusable?
>> But still, making the popup simply non-focusable looks
>> better.
> Exactly, this is the solution I chose to fix the issue.
> However, as JDK-7160604 broke an application which was working fine
> since Java-1.3 days I thought reporting it wouldn't harm.
> Should I open a bug-report? If so, in the jira bug-tracker or using
> the "official" form?
>
>> Also, just a side note. As a straightforward workaround to the focus issue,
>> you could invoke your requestFocus later, either via calling invokeLater()
> Funny thing is, I've tried this approach first - and it leads to a
> very strange phenomenon and breaks in a very odd way.
> When I call requestFocus inside a runnable executed via
> SwingUtilities.invokeLater(), the JTextField doesn't receive any
> keyboard events, even after the JPopup is closed and I click on the
> JTextField again. This also seems to be a side-effect of JDK-7160604,
> before it this also just works.
>
> Best regards, Clemens