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I have a dialog on which are several JTextField objects.  When the
dialog is started I had expected the JTextField object that was first
"added" to be the one with focus but when I try to enter data, nothing
happens!  I find I must first either click on the field or hit the "Tab"
button enough times to cycle the focus around all the objects on the
dialog eventually coming to the desired field.  I have tried using
"requestFocus()" with no effect.  I even verified that the object would
accept focus by first testing using the "isFocusTraversable()" method,
determining that "requestFocus()" should work.

Any suggestions?  No information too trivial.

Thanks.