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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:18:52 -0600, James A. Schulz wrote:

> I have a little Swing applet comprising a few buttons and a
> text field.  I want the focus to start on the text field and
> stay there (i.e. it will never go to the buttons- which are
> operated by accelerator keys), but I don't see how to do that.
> I have tried myTextField.requestDefaultFocus() and
> myTextField.requestFocus (in both init() and jbInit() ), but
> neither does the job.

The requestFocus() method will have no effect before the component has 
been realized (i.e. shown in a window).  I am not certain how things 
work with an applet, but for a frame or a dialog, you could override 
the addNotify() method and request the focus there.

To keep the buttons from getting focus, you will have to arrange for 
the component to return false for both isRequestFocusEnabled() and 
isFocusTraversable().  The former can be done with the corresponding 
setter method, but you will need to override the latter.

-- 
Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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