"Tab" KeyEvent ignored

Question

Hi!
I have a simple scene with a BorderPane and an attached onKeyPressed-Action called "actionXYZ".
<BorderPane onKeyPressed="#actionXYZ" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml">
</BorderPane> The method "actionXYZ" should do something, whenever I press the TAB-Key (KeyCode.TAB).
public static void actionXYZ(KeyEvent event) {
   if (event.getCode() == KeyCode.TAB) {
          // done something
} Problem now is, that the TAB-Key event is either not recognized or simply ignored. At least, nothing happens... But if i use another key Alt (KeyCode.TAB), everything works.
Does the TAB-Key needs to be handled differently from other KeyEvents?
Thanks,
J. Ishikawa
Edited by: J. Ishikawa on Jun 7, 2013 6:55 PM

Answer 1

Usually the tab key is used to move the focus to the next tab stop. So add borderPane.requestFocus() statement to the handleAction method
if you want to get the tab event code when the BorderPane layout container is focused.
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ResourceBundle;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.fxml.FXML;
import javafx.fxml.Initializable;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.input.KeyEvent;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
public class SampleController implements Initializable {
    @FXML
    BorderPane borderPane;
    @FXML
    private void handleAction(KeyEvent event) {
        borderPane.requestFocus();             
        System.out.println("You pressed me! " + event.getCode());
    @Override
    public void initialize(URL url, ResourceBundle rb) {
}