Cursor at Textfield?

Please kindly advise me on: how can I set the Cursor inside the JTextField whenever I call a repaint() or at the startup, so that I do not need to use a mouse or tab key to click on the Jtextbox whenever I need to key in data?
By the way, I had tried requestFocus() but to no avail.
Thanks alot.

Hi!
For your window or dialog add a WindowListener and in the windowOpened() event do textField.requestFocus(). This will do the job.
Regards
Jaydeep

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