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I have a Swing applet with only one text field.  After the user enters
something into that field and presses ENTER, the field is temporarily
disabled while an animation is displayed.  Once the animation is finished,
the text field is enabled again, and new input can be entered.  All this
works fine.

Today, I tried adding a modal dialog to the code that runs the animation
(Proceed: Yes, No?).  The dialog appears when it is called and functions as
it should.  However, when the animation concludes, thefocus does not return
to my text field (as it did before I added the dialog).  I have tried adding
calls to myTextField.requestFocus() in various places, but nothing has
worked.

Interestingly, this problem is not apparent when I use the Sun applet runner
in the JB4 IDE.  It only shows up when I run the app (outside of the IDE) in
my browser (IE5).

Any suggestions as to how I can get the focus back where it belongs?

thanks,

James