JMenu consumes focuslost event in Windows7 LAF Java7

Question

If a popup menu is still open when another component is clicked, then the component does not get the event, because it\'s probably consumed by the popup. This happens for al

Answer 1

Here is the magic line that fixes the problem:

UIManager.put("PopupMenu.consumeEventOnClose", Boolean.FALSE);

I found this after looking into the source code for the BasicPopupMenuUI class. Apparently this behaviour is a deliberate design choice according to the following comments in the code, but it sure feels like a bug to me.

            // Ask UIManager about should we consume event that closes
            // popup. This made to match native apps behaviour.

By the way, it happens in Java 5 and 6 too.