JTextField.select(int, int) not working in modal JDialog

Question

Hi
I have discovered something peculiar. When I have a JDialog, and it is modal, then the select method of any JTextfield will surely fail. (Only tested on win32)
What the owner is does not matter (even null will give the same result). I made a JFrame for your convenience.
import javax.swing.*;
public class MyDialog extends JDialog
     private JTextField     tf     = new JTextField("not selected >selected< not selected");
     public static void main(String[] args)
          JFrame f = new JFrame("Some parent frame");
          f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          f.setVisible(true);
          new MyDialog(f);
     public MyDialog(JFrame parent)
          super(parent, "Child dialog", /*Selecct modality*/ true);
          // super();
          super.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
          super.add(this.tf);
          super.pack();
          super.setLocation(0, 50);
          super.setVisible(true);
          // Selection does not work when dialog is modal.
          this.tf.select(14, 22);
          this.tf.requestFocus();
}I did not find a bug in the database concerning this.
Did I do something wrong, or should I post this as a bug?

Answer 1

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