Problem losing focus

Hi all,
I have a problem with a Flex application hosted in an Adobe InDesign CS4. I'm using a panel developed in Flex inside Adobe InDesign. The Flex panel has a Tree component. The problem is that when I click in the Tree component and then I click outside the panel in order to type some text in an InDesign document, the focus still remains in the Flex panel. In fact, the focus is in the Tree component and it is imposible to take the focus out of the panel unless you close the panel.
Does anybody know how to solve this problem?
Thaks in advance,
Alvaro.

Hi Alex,
if I click on a button in the same panel and after I click the InDesign document to type some text, I get the same behaviour, the InDesign document doesn't get the focus which is still in the button. So this hapends with any Flex component.
Thanks.

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Regards,
Andrew.

Hi Andrew,
I don't know a possibility to get an event like you want to have - and I do think such an eevnt does not exist.
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//======================================================================
// Begin Source Listing
//======================================================================
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import java.util.Vector;
import java.util.Enumeration;
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//======================================================================
// End of Source Listing
//======================================================================

I did not read the program, but the chopping looks like a layout problem.
I think it's heavy to use a panel + 3 components in a gridlayout for each cell. look at this sample where i draw the Cell myself,
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     sel = isSelected;
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          else        g.setColor(Color.lightGray);
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Noah
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Hi,
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ANY SOLUTION MR MICROSOFT?
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* Copyright (c) 1995, 2008, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.Border;
import javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel;
import javax.swing.table.TableCellEditor;
import javax.swing.table.TableCellRenderer;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
public class TableDialogEditDemo extends JPanel {
    public class ColorEditor extends AbstractCellEditor
            implements TableCellEditor,
            ActionListener {
        Color currentColor;
        JButton button;
        JColorChooser colorChooser;
        JDialog dialog;
        protected static final String EDIT = "edit";
        public ColorEditor() {
            //Set up the editor (from the table's point of view), which is a button.
            //This button brings up the color chooser dialog, which is the editor from the user's point of view.
            button = new JButton();
            button.setActionCommand(EDIT);
            button.addActionListener(this);
            button.setBorderPainted(false);
            //Set up the dialog that the button brings up.
            colorChooser = new JColorChooser();
            dialog = JColorChooser.createDialog(button, "Pick a Color", true, //modal
                    colorChooser, this, //OK button handler
                    null); //no CANCEL button handler
         * Handles events from the editor button and from the dialog's OK button.
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            if (EDIT.equals(e.getActionCommand())) {
                //The user has clicked the cell, so bring up the dialog.
                button.setBackground(currentColor);
                colorChooser.setColor(currentColor);
                dialog.setVisible(true);
                //Make the renderer reappear.
                fireEditingStopped();
            } else { //User pressed dialog's "OK" button
                currentColor = colorChooser.getColor();
        public Object getCellEditorValue() {
            return currentColor;
        public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table,
                                                     Object value,
                                                     boolean isSelected,
                                                     int row,
                                                     int column) {
            currentColor = (Color) value;
            return button;
    public class ColorRenderer extends JLabel
            implements TableCellRenderer {
        Border unselectedBorder = null;
        Border selectedBorder = null;
        boolean isBordered = true;
        public ColorRenderer(boolean isBordered) {
            this.isBordered = isBordered;
            setOpaque(true);
        public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(
                JTable table, Object color,
                boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus,
                int row, int column) {
            Color newColor = (Color) color;
            setBackground(newColor);
            if (isBordered) {
                if (isSelected) {
                    if (selectedBorder == null) {
                        selectedBorder = BorderFactory.createMatteBorder(2, 5, 2, 5,
                                table.getSelectionBackground());
                    setBorder(selectedBorder);
                } else {
                    if (unselectedBorder == null) {
                        unselectedBorder = BorderFactory.createMatteBorder(2, 5, 2, 5,
                                table.getBackground());
                    setBorder(unselectedBorder);
            return this;
    public TableDialogEditDemo() {
        super(new GridLayout());
        JTextField tf1 = new JTextField("tf1");
        add(tf1);
        JTextField tf2 = new JTextField("tf2");
        add(tf2);
        JTable table = new JTable(new MyTableModel());
        table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(new Dimension(500, 70));
        table.setFillsViewportHeight(true);
        JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(table);
        table.setDefaultRenderer(Color.class,
                new ColorRenderer(true));
        table.setDefaultEditor(Color.class,
                new ColorEditor());
        add(scrollPane);
    class MyTableModel extends AbstractTableModel {
        private String[] columnNames = {"First Name",
                "Favorite Color",
                "Sport",
                "# of Years",
                "Vegetarian"};
        private Object[][] data = {
                {"Mary", new Color(153, 0, 153),
                        "Snowboarding", new Integer(5), new Boolean(false)},
                {"Alison", new Color(51, 51, 153),
                        "Rowing", new Integer(3), new Boolean(true)},
                {"Kathy", new Color(51, 102, 51),
                        "Knitting", new Integer(2), new Boolean(false)},
                {"Sharon", Color.red,
                        "Speed reading", new Integer(20), new Boolean(true)},
                {"Philip", Color.pink,
                        "Pool", new Integer(10), new Boolean(false)}
        public int getColumnCount() {
            return columnNames.length;
        public int getRowCount() {
            return data.length;
        public String getColumnName(int col) {
            return columnNames[col];
        public Object getValueAt(int row, int col) {
            return data[row][col];
        public Class getColumnClass(int c) {
            return getValueAt(0, c).getClass();
        public boolean isCellEditable(int row, int col) {
            if (col < 1) {
                return false;
            } else {
                return true;
        public void setValueAt(Object value, int row, int col) {
            data[row][col] = value;
            fireTableCellUpdated(row, col);
    private static void createAndShowGUI() {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("TableDialogEditDemo");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        JComponent newContentPane = new TableDialogEditDemo();
        newContentPane.setOpaque(true);
        frame.setContentPane(newContentPane);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                createAndShowGUI();
}When you come back from choosing a color, tf1 is given the focus, instead of the table. This is because bringing the color picker window to the front causes a focus lost event for the cell editor component; it's temporary, as it should be, so why on earth is the system losing track of who has focus in the window??
I see the following in Window#getMostRecentFocusOwner():
public Component getMostRecentFocusOwner()
    if (isFocused())
      return getFocusOwner();
    else
      Component mostRecent =
        KeyboardFocusManager.getMostRecentFocusOwner(this);
      if (mostRecent != null)
        return mostRecent;
      else
        return (isFocusableWindow())
               ? getFocusTraversalPolicy().getInitialComponent(this)
               : null;
}My app has a custom focus traversal policy, so I'm able to see who is being called, and indeed, getInitialComponent() is being called. Clearly, the KeyboardFocusManager is actually losing track of the fact that the table was focussed at the point where control was transferred to the color picker! This strikes me as completely unreasonable, especially since, as noted, this is a temporary focus loss event, not a permanent one.
I'd be grateful for any wisdom in solving this, since similar behaviour to this little demo -- without focus loss, naturally -- is an essential part of my application.

Looks like it is because the 'restore-focus-to-previous-after-modal-dialog-close' is in a later event than when the control returns to the action performed (which I guess makes sense: it continues the action event handler and the focus events are handled later, but I needed two chained invoke laters so it might also be that the OS events comes later).
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           // (otherwise sometimes OK button not correctly the default button)
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                        null); //no CANCEL button handler
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                    @Override
                    public void focusLost(FocusEvent e) {}
                    @Override
                    public void focusGained(FocusEvent e) {
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                        fireEditingStopped();
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see http://forum.java.sun.com/help.jspa?sec=formatting,
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