FormPage focusLost Handling

[derrydavis]

Hi All,
I've created a formpage and wish to display a pop-up when a user switches focus from the page to another page. I can't seem to get the focusLost event to fire. Thanks in advance for any hints or suggestions. Here's the code snippet that setups the form and the focus events:

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protected void createFormContent(IManagedForm managedForm) {
   FormToolkit toolkit = managedForm.getToolkit();
   ScrolledForm form = managedForm.getForm();
   try{
    form.addFocusListener(new FocusAdapter() {
     public void focusGained(FocusEvent e) {
       System.out.println("Form gained focus.");
     }
     public void focusLost(FocusEvent e) {
       System.out.println("Form focus lost!");
        try {
          Shell shell = new Shell();
          MessageDialog.openInformation(shell,"Form pop-up",
   "Form focus was lost.");
        }catch (Error E){
        }            
      }
     });
    }catch (Error e){
       System.out.println("Error setting focus listeners! " + e);
   }

[Eric Clayberg]

General SWT questions should be posted to the Eclipse SWT newsgroup.

1. ScrolledForm does not trigger a Focus event (only controls that process
the keyboard can have focus).

2. In any case, you will directly receive a focus gained/lost event only
for the control that gained/lost it; not from all of its parents.

One possible solution - add a focus listener to all the controls on this
ScrolledForm, and in focus lost check that the focus is not in any other
control of this ScrolledForm (i.e., on some other page). You may need to do this in an async block.