How do you lose focus?

[nhmllr]

I want my game to lose focus when the player presses a certain key (escape).
What method can I used on the component to accomplish this? I've looked through the API and there appears to be no equivalent to a "loseFocus()" method
Thanks

[LunaticEdit]

I guess if there was a way to disable then re-enable it may push the focus out.. or (more drastically) hide and show. Some APIs have the blur() method which will remove focus. Not 100% sure the exact answer because I don't mess with the UI stuff.

[Best Username Ever]

Whatever you're planning, it sounds like a bad idea. The only thing that a window having focus means is that you receive key events. If you don't want key events, then just ignore them.

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[Jimmt]

Uhhh....java.awt.Robot move mouse outside, then click?
Probably not a good idea

[Sickan]

From the thread title I thought that you were some sort of super-programmer who was asking other programmers for how to not focus.

[ra4king]

You cannot force an application to lose focus....at least with AWT.

[KevinWorkman]

It really depends on what you mean specifically, but you might look into this:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Window.html#toBack%28%29

[PeterNicholson]

What do you mean by "lose focus"??  If you have gor the mouse grabbed, just "ungrabbit" using Mouse.setGrabbed(false);

[ra4king]

It really depends on what you mean specifically, but you might look into this:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Window.html#toBack%28%29

That only works when there are other windows open in the JVM, according to the javadocs.

[5c0jt]

I got that feeling that he meant that he wanted the camera to lose focus, i.e everything becomes blurry.
E.G

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[namrog84]

From the thread title I thought that you were some sort of super-programmer who was asking other programmers for how to not focus.

I've lost focus as to what I am doing.
Wait where am I?