Determining If a Focus Lost Is Temporary or Permanent

A temporary focus-lost event occurs if the focus moves to another window. It's temporary because the component will gain the focus when its window becomes active again.

A permanent focus-lost event occurs if the focus moves to another component in the same window.

An example where this distinction might come in handy is in text field validation; a text field might not validate its contents in the case of a temporary loss of focus.

component.addFocusListener(new MyFocusListener()); public class MyFocusListener extends FocusAdapter { public void focusGained(FocusEvent evt) { // The component gained the focus. } public void focusLost(FocusEvent evt) { // The component lost the focus. boolean isTemporary = evt.isTemporary(); } }

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