I know that your can give focus to a node in javafx by doing node.requestFocus(); but is there a way to take away focus from a node in javafx or prevent focus on an
If you have another node then you can remove focus from your node and give it to another with this.
otherNode.requestFocus();
By doing this you won't need to disable or enable your original node.
Some nodes such as a Label won't look different when they have focus, so this can make it appear as if focus was removed.
node = new node() {
public void requestFocus() { }
};
Now this will override the focus and the node will NEVER be able to have focus. You could also (as stated before) disable the node with:
node.setDisable(true);
If you need focus later:
node.setDisable(false);
node.requestFocus();
I decided to update my answer to this with one more option. If you are giving another node focus at the start of the program you could set a particular node to be non-traversable and it will not gain focus.
node.setFocusTraversable(false);
I don't think there's any guarantee this will always work, but you can try setting focus to something that inherently doesn't accept keyboard input (such as a layout pane):
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class NoFocusTest extends Application {
@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
TextField tf1 = new TextField();
tf1.setPromptText("Enter something");
TextField tf2 = new TextField();
tf2.setPromptText("Enter something else");
VBox root = new VBox(5, tf1, tf2);
primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 250, 150));
primaryStage.show();
root.requestFocus();
}
}