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## java.awt.event
Interface WindowFocusListener

All Superinterfaces:
  EventListener

All Known Implementing Classes:
  AWTEventMulticaster, BasicToolBarUI.FrameListener, JMenu.WinListener, WindowAdapter

    public interface WindowFocusListener

extends EventListener

The listener interface for receiving `WindowEvents`, including `WINDOW_GAINED_FOCUS` and `WINDOW_LOST_FOCUS` events. The class that is interested in processing a `WindowEvent` either implements this interface (and all the methods it contains) or extends the abstract `WindowAdapter` class (overriding only the methods of interest). The listener object created from that class is then registered with a `Window` using the `Window`'s `addWindowFocusListener` method. When the `Window`'s status changes by virtue of it being opened, closed, activated, deactivated, iconified, or deiconified, or by focus being transfered into or out of the `Window`, the relevant method in the listener object is invoked, and the `WindowEvent` is passed to it.

Since:
  1.4
See Also:
  `WindowAdapter`, `WindowEvent`, Tutorial: Writing a Window Listener

Method Summary
`void` | `windowGainedFocus(WindowEvent e)` Invoked when the Window is set to be the focused Window, which means that the Window, or one of its subcomponents, will receive keyboard events.
`void` | `windowLostFocus(WindowEvent e)` Invoked when the Window is no longer the focused Window, which means that keyboard events will no longer be delivered to the Window or any of its subcomponents.

Method Detail

### windowGainedFocus

    void windowGainedFocus(WindowEvent e)

  Invoked when the Window is set to be the focused Window, which means that the Window, or one of its subcomponents, will receive keyboard events.

### windowLostFocus

    void windowLostFocus(WindowEvent e)

  Invoked when the Window is no longer the focused Window, which means that keyboard events will no longer be delivered to the Window or any of its subcomponents.

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