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Re: Cursor won't display in components in a JWindow

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From: Lori M Olson [TeamB]
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:09
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GUI-Majician wrote:

> Once again I have to answer my own questions. :-(
> 

If you posted some code or some details, it would be easier to answer 
your questions.

> The problem is in the FocusManager.  It does not allow focus to travel from
> one JWindow to another, or to the components that is.  You get focusGained()
> but not focusLost(), windowActivated(), windowDeactivated() events.  This is
> part of it anyway.  You can get the cursor (caret) to show up sometimes but
> you cannot tab between fields.  JWindow does not work well with focus and
> text input JComponents.  Java 1.5 has not solved the problem either.

FocusManagers are largely deprecated as of JDK 1.4.  You want 
FocusTraversalPolicy.  And you can always write your own focus traversal 
policy if the default one is not doing what you want.

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Regards,

Lori Olson [TeamB]

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