Re: Getting focus in a JTextField

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From: Paul Furbacher [TeamB]
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:00

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Leo Cohen wrote:

> I start up an application by soliciting a line of text information from
> the user. I do this with JDialog and JTextField. The control comes up
> just after I have put a menu on the screen.
> 
> The problem is that the user has to move the mouse over the control in
> order to get focus. I've tried putting jTextField.requestFocus() before
> and after the jTextField.setVisible(true), but to no avail.

Typically, focus requests are only honored for "realized" components.
You can look at how JOptionDialog works around this when it sets
the focus before showing itself and mimic that.

Paul Furbacher  (TeamB)

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