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Kevin Dean [TeamB] wrote:
> 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.

The old way of doing this was to override addNotify().  One has to be
careful to call super.addNotify(), otherwise there's trouble.

     public void addNotify() {
       super.addNotify();
       myTextField.requestFocus();
     }


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