Focus in text box

Question

Hi,
I am writing a login dialog which has two text fields, one for username and other for the password. I want the focus on username field when the dialog is displayed. I have tried two approaches:
I) I added the focus listner to the dialog and passed the focus to the username field at the time of initialisation
II) I added the focus to the username field by:
a) username.requestFocus();
b) username.requestFocusInWindow();
I am testing my code with JRE1.5 on Solaris and HPUnix. The behaviour of the code is not consistent. At times I can see the cursor blinking in the username field but sometimes there is no focus.
Is there anything wrong in the above approach. Or can anyone suggest a better way to do this?
thank you.

Answer 1

public JPanel createLogInPanel()
JPanel loginPanel = new JPanel(new VerticalLayout(10, 10, 10, 10, 10));
JPanel dataPanel = new JPanel(new
PropertyLayout(10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10));
JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel(new
ButtonLayout(ButtonLayout.HORIZONTAL,
ButtonLayout.CENTER,
ButtonLayout.DEFAULTGAP));
userNameTxt = new JTextField(10);
passwordTxt = new JPasswordField(10);
final JButton logInButton = new JButton("Log-In");
JButton clearButton = new JButton("Clear");
JButton cancelButton = new JButton("Cancel");
dataPanel.add("1.1.bind.nobind.center.center", userNameLabel);
dataPanel.add("1.2.bind.nobind.center.center", userNameTxt);
dataPanel.add("2.1.bind.nobind.center.center", passwordLabel);
dataPanel.add("2.2.bind.nobind.center.center", passwordTxt);
buttonPanel.add(logInButton);
buttonPanel.add(clearButton);
buttonPanel.add(cancelButton);
messagePanel.add("bind.nobind.center.center", errorMsgLabel);
loginPanel.add("bind.nobind.center.center", dataPanel);
loginPanel.add("bind.nobind.center.center", buttonPanel);
loginPanel.add("bind.nobind.center.center", messagePanel);
userNameTxt.requestFocus();
return loginPanel;
This is what I am doing. Where is the change needed for the Z-order?