RFR: 8090456: Focus Management [v8]

[Nir Lisker]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 17:33:15 GMT, Andy Goryachev <angorya at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Public APIs for focus traversal and the focus traversal policy:
>> 
>> https://github.com/andy-goryachev-oracle/Test/blob/main/doc/FocusTraversal/FocusTraversal.md
>> 
>> This work is loosely based on the patch
>> https://cr.openjdk.org/~jgiles/8061673/
>
> Andy Goryachev has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 14 commits:
> 
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into 8090456.focus.traversal
>  - removed traversal event
>  - javadoc
>  - remove bounds
>  - whitespace
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into 8090456.focus.traversal
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into 8090456.focus.traversal
>  - review comments
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into 8090456.focus.traversal
>  - review comments part 1
>  - ... and 4 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/compare/4d3c3661...9e1fa796

I'm missing the explanation in the proposal for why the API needs to be static methods called on nodes, and not have these methods on the nodes themselves. Instead of `public static boolean traverseDown(Node node)`, why not `public boolean traverseDown()` in `Node`?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1555#issuecomment-2398099101