Re: Where is focus?

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From: Paul Furbacher
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 00:00

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Guy Scharf wrote:
> 
> I have created a JDialog with three JButtons and two JLabels on it.
> This is a simple dialog to ask the user to make a choice.
> 
> When the dialog is displayed, where is the focus?  If I press the Tab
> key, focus moves to the first button.  But I would prefer that it be on
> the first button to begin with.  How do I make that happen?
> 
> I am running JBuilder 2 and Swing 1.0.3.

Take a look at how JOptionPane does it -- notably the 
calls to "setInitialValue()" and "selectInitialValue()"
in "showOptionDialog()".

Or you could try a "requestFocus()", but that supposedly 
doesn't work until the component is visible.

Paul Furbacher

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