Re: How do i give focus to a JTextField

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From: Joi Ellis
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:00

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Alexis Rios wrote:
> 
> I want to do this in JBuilder
> 
> Delphi code:
> 
> procedure SetFocus;
> begin
>     txtName.setFocus; (* I need something like this in Java *)
> end;
> 
> It seems there isn't a method that is able to do that in Java or there is?
> 
> Thanks

Every widget which descends from Swing's JComponent has a method
requestFocus().

so, textname.requestFocus() should do it.

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/javax/swing/JTextField.html#method_summary

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/javax/swing/JComponent.html#requestFocus()

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