JTextField - grab focus

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Kurtz Weber - 14 Feb 2006 09:59 GMT

Hello!
I've a JDialog with some JPanels (and different layout managers). In a
JPanel I've a JTextField, I'd like that, when the dialog is shown
(using setVisible(true)) the JTextField could have focus, so the user
could start typing.
I tryed the method grabFocus, before or after the
JDialog.setVisible(true) but nothing happens.
Suggestions?
Thanks!

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cypher - 14 Feb 2006 12:30 GMT

have you tried yourJTextField.requestFocus()

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Kurtz Weber - 14 Feb 2006 12:54 GMT

Hello!

>have you tried yourJTextField.requestFocus()

Thanks! I had also to add a ComponentListener to detect when the
dialog is shown, like:

this.addComponentListener(
new ComponentAdapter() {
public void componentShown(ComponentEvent e) {
myJTextField.requestFocus();
}});

bye

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longoja@yahoo.com - 14 Feb 2006 14:54 GMT

Also, you should use requestFocusInWindow(), I believe the other is
deprecated now, just an FYI>

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