I agree with this analysis, and I've taken the liberty to steal parts of your code for this PR: https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/1632
On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 3:06 PM John Hendrikx <john.hendr...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > I now think Behaviors should always be doing their event handling in filters, > for the simple reason that they should get to act first before the Skin gets > to act on an event; events arriving at the Control level which is the final > destination can be handled by either a handler or a filter and there would be > no discernible difference. Not only does this solve the problem with the > internal text field and the Skin needing to be aware of what keys Behavior > will be handling, but it also then makes behaviors always act before user > event handlers, creating consistency here (ie. replacing a Skin will not > affect event handler order). This frees up handlers for user purposes. > [...]
