Control/change tab order

How does one control the tab order (the order in which controls are visited when the TAB key is pressed) in a JavaFX 1.3.1 application?
It isn't always the case that one wants the tab order to be the same order as used in the layout.

Thanks a lot for your help guys.
Let me explain a little bit more my problem, maybe you guys get a good way to do this.
Ok, I have a tab control with 4 tabs (Auto Mode, Manual Mode, Troubleshooting and Configuration) in that order. In the "Auto Mode and Manual Mode tabs I have a selector switch to select the operation mode (auto or manual). Now, when I have the switch in auto mode, the manual mode tab page is hidden, when I change the selector switch to manual mode the manual mode tab page is unhide, the auto mode tab page is hide and the manual mode tab page is automatically selected. This happens because my manual mode page is the second one and when the page before is hidden the next one get active. The problem came up when I change the switch back to manual mode. I want that the auto mode page unhide, the manual mode page hide and the auto mode page get active, but instead the page that came active is the troubleshooting page since this is the one after the manual mode page.
So, what I was planning to do was to rearrange the pages order when auto or manual mode are selected so that the second page be always the hidden one.
Maybe I confuse you guys more, but that'sthe idea. If something came out of your mind, I really appreciate the help.
Ferdinand Martinez
FMO Automation LLC

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