FocusManager class

Manages the focus tree.

The focus tree is a separate, sparser, tree from the widget tree that maintains the hierarchical relationship between focusable widgets in the widget tree.

The focus manager is responsible for tracking which FocusNode has the primary input focus (the primaryFocus), holding the FocusScopeNode that is the root of the focus tree (the rootScope), and what the current highlightMode is. It also distributes key events from RawKeyboard to the nodes in the focus tree.

The singleton FocusManager instance is held by the WidgetsBinding as WidgetsBinding.focusManager, and can be conveniently accessed using the FocusManager.instance static accessor.

To find the FocusNode for a given BuildContext, use Focus.of. To find the FocusScopeNode for a given BuildContext, use FocusScope.of.

If you would like notification whenever the primaryFocus changes, register a listener with addListener. When you no longer want to receive these events, as when your object is about to be disposed, you must unregister with removeListener to avoid memory leaks. Removing listeners is typically done in State.dispose on stateful widgets.

The highlightMode describes how focus highlights should be displayed on components in the UI. The highlightMode changes are notified separately via addHighlightModeListener and removed with removeHighlightModeListener. The highlight mode changes when the user switches from a mouse to a touch interface, or vice versa.

The widgets that are used to manage focus in the widget tree are:

  • Focus, a widget that manages a FocusNode in the focus tree so that the focus tree reflects changes in the widget hierarchy.
  • FocusScope, a widget that manages a FocusScopeNode in the focus tree, creating a new scope for restricting focus to a set of focus nodes.
  • FocusTraversalGroup, a widget that groups together nodes that should be traversed using an order described by a given FocusTraversalPolicy.

See also:

  • FocusNode, which is a node in the focus tree that can receive focus.
  • FocusScopeNode, which is a node in the focus tree used to collect subtrees into groups and restrict focus to them.
  • The primaryFocus global accessor, for convenient access from anywhere to the current focus manager state.
Mixed in types

Constructors

FocusManager()
Creates an object that manages the focus tree. [...]

Properties

hashCode → int
The hash code for this object. [...]
read-only, inherited
hasListeners → bool
Whether any listeners are currently registered. [...]
@protected, read-only, inherited
highlightMode → FocusHighlightMode
Indicates the current interaction mode for focus highlights. [...]
read-only
highlightStrategy ↔ FocusHighlightStrategy
Sets the strategy by which highlightMode is determined. [...]
read / write
primaryFocus → FocusNode
The node that currently has the primary focus.
read-only
rootScope → FocusScopeNode
The root FocusScopeNode in the focus tree. [...]
final
runtimeType → Type
A representation of the runtime type of the object.
read-only, inherited

Methods

addHighlightModeListener(ValueChanged<FocusHighlightMode> listener) → void
Register a closure to be called when the FocusManager notifies its listeners that the value of highlightMode has changed.
addListener(void listener()) → void
Register a closure to be called when the object changes. [...]
inherited
debugDescribeChildren() → List<DiagnosticsNode>
Returns a list of DiagnosticsNode objects describing this node's children. [...]
override
debugFillProperties(DiagnosticPropertiesBuilder properties) → void
Add additional properties associated with the node. [...]
override
dispose() → void
Discards any resources used by the object. After this is called, the object is not in a usable state and should be discarded (calls to addListener and removeListener will throw after the object is disposed). [...]
@mustCallSuper, inherited
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic
Invoked when a non-existent method or property is accessed. [...]
inherited
notifyListeners() → void
Call all the registered listeners. [...]
@protected, @visibleForTesting, inherited
removeHighlightModeListener(ValueChanged<FocusHighlightMode> listener) → void
Remove a previously registered closure from the list of closures that the FocusManager notifies.
removeListener(void listener()) → void
Remove a previously registered closure from the list of closures that are notified when the object changes. [...]
inherited
toDiagnosticsNode({String name, DiagnosticsTreeStyle style}) → DiagnosticsNode
Returns a debug representation of the object that is used by debugging tools and by DiagnosticsNode.toStringDeep. [...]
inherited
toString({DiagnosticLevel minLevel: DiagnosticLevel.info}) → String
Returns a string representation of this object.
inherited
toStringDeep({String prefixLineOne: '', String prefixOtherLines, DiagnosticLevel minLevel: DiagnosticLevel.debug}) → String
Returns a string representation of this node and its descendants. [...]
inherited
toStringShallow({String joiner: ', ', DiagnosticLevel minLevel: DiagnosticLevel.debug}) → String
Returns a one-line detailed description of the object. [...]
inherited
toStringShort() → String
A brief description of this object, usually just the runtimeType and the hashCode. [...]
inherited

Operators

operator ==(Object other) → bool
The equality operator. [...]
inherited

Static Properties

instance → FocusManager
Provides convenient access to the current FocusManager singleton from the WidgetsBinding instance.
read-only