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JavaFX 2 set/get cursor position

How can I set/get the cursor’s position in JavaFX 2? I tired googling the answer but found nothing useful. All I can do is setting the cursor’s style. Answer You can use robot for that purpose: AWT robot: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/Robot.html or glass robot: com.sun.glas…

How to use FXMLLoader.load() – JavaFX 2

I am building a JavaFX application using the JavaFX Scene Builder. The interface was created in the Scene Builder and a FXML file (main.fxml) was created. To use the interface in my application I must load the FXML file using the FXMLLoader, but there is a problem because the load() method returns an Object, …

Tab key navigation in JavaFX TextArea

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 to lose it focus (without knowing the next field in the chain to be focused) ? Answer This code traverse focus if pressing TAB and

RequestFocus in TextField doesn’t work

I use JavaFX 2.1 and I created GUI using FXML, in the controller of this GUI I added myTextField.requestFocus();. But I always get the focus in the other control. Answer At the time of initialize() controls are not yet ready to handle focus. You can try next trick: For tricky complex applications (like Pavel_…

Javafx Pane vs Region?

According to the documentation, both Region and Pane will resize any resizable child nodes to their preferred size, but will not reposition them. So i can’t see where the differencies between these …