How to focus owner of stage?

Question

Hi,
I have an application and I've created a transparent stage on top of main stage and initialise the main stage as its owner. Then I create an additional visible stage and then close the visible stage. The focus goes back to my transparent stage. I must click on my main stage first to get the focus on the main stage or alternative I can ALT+F4 to close my transparent stage.
I want my transparent stage to never receive focus. If it would receive focus, I would like the focus to be sent to its owner. I though the following would work (Scala):
class SpyScopeGlass(owner: Window) extends Stage(StageStyle.TRANSPARENT) {
this.focusedProperty().addChangeListener { (_, _, newValue) =>
println("--> spy stage focussed: " + newValue)
owner.setFocused(true)
owner.requestFocus()
println("--> forward focussed: " + owner)
The println runs as expected, but the focus never goes back to the owner. Any ideas why the owner doesn't focus?
Cheers,
-John

Answer 1

888641 wrote:
Hi Narayan,
Thanks for your reply. I am still somewhat confused though. I tried to call toFront on the owner stage and it neither goes to the front (which I didn't want anyway) nor gets the focus.
this.focusedProperty().addChangeListener { (_, _, newValue) =>
this.owner match {
case ownerStage: Stage => {
ownerStage.toFront()
ownerStage.setFocused(true)
}Do you by any chance know why focus doesn't transfer as expected?
Cheers,
-John
Edited by: 888641 on Oct 1, 2011 2:05 AMHello user,
Have you tried to use some toBack() function too??
The toFront() actually makes your windows at front but the javafx automatically handles the focus windows so to explicitly make other windows not to be focused , TRY WITH toBack() function. You can see in the code of my previous thread comment that I've used toBack() too.
Thanks.
Narayan