Focus problems, not sure how to make focus work correctly

Question

I have a number of dialog boxes and wizards, and just before I call show I request focus for the component I want to be displayed, but nothing happens. I think the show method it JDialog is setting the focus, and that this is the problem.
I want behavior to work as expected ie.focus to start at top left component and work its way down. Instead it seems to be giving fucos in the order the components were added, or soething like that. Does anyone know if this is indeed the case? I have many widgets which add components in the superclass, so this could cause me problems.
I do not want to create a focus manager, but if worse comes to worse, I will - this is a problem that is unacceptable to the client.
Any suggestions or comments?
btw I am using 1.3.1 and win2k for the OS.

Answer 1

Hi,
addWindowListener(new java.awt.event.WindowAdapter() {
public void windowActivated(java.awt.event.WindowEvent evt) {
formWindowActivated(evt);
protected void formWindowActivated(java.awt.event.WindowEvent evt) {
// Add your handling code here:
getFocusFor(yourFirstComp );
private void getFocusFor(final JComponent comp ){
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
          public void run() {
          comp.setRequestFocusEnabled( true );
          comp.requestFocus();
}