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Re: requestFocus and JTextField

#261
From: Bruce Houghtron
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:07
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Damit your good. Thanks allot, I've been fighting this
problem for a long time. Now I can also fix my Login
screen. The customer always asked why I couldn't put
the cursor in the Password Field on the Login screen
Thanks again...
Bruce Houghton

"Kevin Dean [TeamB]" <NkOdSePaAnM@datadevelopment.com> wrote in message 
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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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