ContextMenu and programmatically selecting an item

Question

There does not seem to be API for programmatically \"selecting\" ContextMenu items? By selecting I mean the equivalent of tapping up and down keys (or hovering the mouse ove

Answer 1

To get this working, we could use some private API. ContextMenu skin (ContextMenuSkin) uses a ContextMenuContent object, as a container with all the items.

We just need to request the focus for the first of these items.

But for this we could just use some lookups to find the first menu-item CSS selector. This has to be done after the stage has been shown.

This example will show a context menu with focus on the first item:

@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {

    MenuItem cmItem1 = new MenuItem("Item 1");
    cmItem1.setOnAction(e->System.out.println("Item 1"));
    MenuItem cmItem2 = new MenuItem("Item 2");
    cmItem2.setOnAction(e->System.out.println("Item 2"));

    final ContextMenu cm = new ContextMenu(cmItem1,cmItem2);

    Scene scene = new Scene(new StackPane(), 300, 250);

    primaryStage.setScene(scene);
    primaryStage.show();

    scene.setOnMouseClicked(t -> {
        if(t.getButton()==MouseButton.SECONDARY){
            cm.show(scene.getWindow(),t.getScreenX(),t.getScreenY());

            // Request focus on first item
            cm.getSkin().getNode().lookup(".menu-item").requestFocus();
        }
    });        
}