How to make keyboard modal?

I have a bunch of text edit fields. When the user clicks on one of them the keyboard comes up. But they can touch on another field before they click the DONE button on the keyboard, then they might be editing two fields. I am currently closing off the edit when another one opens up but is there a simpler way, to make the keyboard entry modal so that no other touches can happen until then?

Yes, absolutely. There is no limitation as to how many components a JDialog can contain.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/JDialog.html
In the JDialog's constructor you can pass :
- the parent JFrame or JDialog,
- whether the current JDialog is modal
- its title.
Then you add components the same than for a JFrame : setContentPane(a Container) or getContentPane().add(...).

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