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Bruce Houghtron wrote:

>I'll be dammed if I can get Focus on a JTextField at Load Time.
>I've tried everything(it seems). requestFocus, requestFocusInWindow,
>requestFocus(true)....
>I have two JDialog's, one with a JList, and one without. The one without
>works fine. One of the symptoms is that when I key something in, just 
>after load time, I
>get an "valueChanged" from the ListSelectionListener.
>
>I put a "requestFocus()" then a getFocusOwner() after the init is 
>complete. The
>getFocusOwner() shows "null".
>Like I say, it seems as if I have tried everything and  read everything I 
>can get
>my hands on... So far no luck..

The problem is that requesting focus is a window event and the window 
object hasn't been created yet.  Initializing a dialog or a frame creates 
only the Java objects, not the window handle.

Try hooking into the "componentShown" event on the window and requesting 
focus at that point.

-- 
Kevin Dean [TeamB]
Dolphin Data Development Ltd.
http://www.datadevelopment.com/

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