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dan19
Binge Watcher
4 years ago

Is there a way to know what node had the last focus?

I don't know if this is possible, but is there a way to know what node had the last focus? for example, if I have a poster, a rectangle, etc, and I open a dialog, but would want to setfocus to the l...
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sanity-check
Roku Guru
4 years ago

You can observe 'focusedChild' on any Node, that might help.

(Looking at my own code I have a lot of spaghetti around focus management so I don't recall exactly what the default behaviours are but if you're on the Roku UI happy path hopefully you won't need to lose too much hair.)