Re: focus property in composed control

2015-02-23 Thread Werner Lehmann
Hi Tom, lately I've been battling similar issues. One important thing I learned here is that if my custom control wraps a TextField in its skin I have to make sure that the custom control is not focus-traversable. It also seems difficult to have focus on the custom control in terms of

focus property in composed control

2015-02-23 Thread Tom Eugelink
JFXtras has a number of extended textfields (BigDecimal, Calendar, LocalDate, ...). These controls use a TextField in their skin to compose this control. These extended textfield controls have a readonly focusProperty()... What would be the best way to forward the focusProperty of the

Re: focus property in composed control

2015-02-23 Thread Michael Heinrichs
Hi Tom, can you provide a code example? I am not sure I understand all the details correctly. :) In particular it is important to know which of the properties are defined in your code and which properties you are just using. For example it is possible to bind a readonly property, but only if

Re: focus property in composed control

2015-02-23 Thread Tom Eugelink
It actually is fairly simple. This is what ideally should happen: CalendarTextField extends Control - Node has: ReadOnlyBooleanProperty focusProperty(); CalendarTextFieldSkin extends Skin - private TextField textField = new TextField(); -