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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.

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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/
>
> Please see Borland's newsgroup guidelines at
> http://info.borland.com/newsgroups/guide.html 

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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