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2five
2five

Reputation: 235

Trying to find the currently focused window using KeyboardFocusManager always results in an error message

So I am trying to get the currently focused window using KeyboardFocusManager, I made two methods to try and achieve this:

public static void getWindowName() {
    String WindowName = KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager().getFocusedWindow().toString();
    System.out.println("Currently opened window: "+WindowName);
}

This results in Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.awt.Window.toString()" because the return value of "java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager.getFocusedWindow()" is null

and

public static Window getActiveWindow() {
    return KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager().getActiveWindow();
}

When calling this method using System.out.println(getActiveWindow());, null gets print out to the console. I always have intelliJ opened and focused when executing the program, I even tried to focus another program, the task manager, same results. Does this happen to you too? What can I do to solve this or are there other, better and easier methods to get the currently focused window in java? I am using java 15.0.2 on windows 10

Upvotes: 0

Views: 262

Answers (1)

talklesscodemore
talklesscodemore

Reputation: 332

As java doc said, "getFocusedWindow() return null if the focused Window is not a member of the calling thread's context" then it may happened when you call it from another thread. So, to make sure getFocusedWindow() is fine, try to do focus programmatically:

some_focusable_component.requestFocus();
System.out.println("Currently opened window: "+KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager().getFocusedWindow().toString() );

Upvotes: 0

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