Tab key navigation in JavaFX TextArea

Question

How do I make hitting the Tab Key in TextArea navigates to the next control ?

I could add a listener to cath de key pressed event, but how do I make te TextArea control

Answer 1

I had the same issue and I like the traverse-methods that Tom uses. But I also want to insert a tab when ctrl+tab is pressed.

The call

behavior.callAction("InsertTab");

doesn´t work with JavaFX8. A look in the TextAreaBehaviour class showed me that there now is a "TraverseOrInsertTab" action.

But however, I think this kind of action calling is quite unstable across several java versions because it relies on a string that is passed.

So instead of the callAction() method, I used

textArea.replaceSelection("\t");