How to set Tab ordering in JPanel

hi all
i add a JPanel on a JFrame and Various swing Controls on that JPanel. now i want to change tab ordering of components present in my JPanel.
please guide me how can i do this. i have tried setFocusTraversalPolicy but it does not work with JPanel.

You should read the article from Sun:
"How to Use the Focus Subsystem"
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/focus.html
Moshe

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Thank you for the quick response! I found instructions for the Pro 9 version, so followed that and it worked like a charm.
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I'm really disappointed in the way you changed how I set tab order in Acrobat Pro X. I work with a lot of forms with multiple fields. Some of these forms have up to 100 different fields on one page that need to be in the order I set. In previous versions, I could set this order simply by clicking on the fields in the correct order I want. But with X, I have to drag each field one by one into the correct order. When you have a bunch of fields to set, this is tedious. And, when I click on a field to edit content, more times than not, it changes the tab order, and I'm back to finding it in the panel and dragging it back to it's correct place. This is time consuming. Not to mention when there are more fields than the monitor's height, the fields are scrolled in the panel.
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You're not doing anything wrong, it really sucks. But things are improved significantly with Acrobat 11. First, there's a preference setting that prevents the automatic reordering that can happen when fields are moved/edited. Second, you are able to select and move multiple fields at a time in the fields panel, which can speed things up considerably. It's still not as efficient as the old method, but at least it has finally been addressed. I think this feature alone is worth the upgrade price for the amount of time it will save and the beneficial effects on stress, blood pressure, and hair loss.

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Ive done it before but cant figure out how I got to it. The presets for "by row", "by column", etc... and arranging using the view on the left panel are not working easily for me and it would just be so much quicker and easier if I could just click the fields in the order I want the tabbing to go. How do you get to that function?

Thanks for the caution. If folks do try this dual install and they get bad results or "buggy" performance, they should uninstall V5. Optionally, keep an old machine running V5 just to set tab order. Recently, we set row/column mixed tab order on a form with 600 fields. Ten minutes vs hours of tedious work locating and dragging fields up and down the column.
We did have a conflict last month when we were intalling PitStop on a V5/V9 machine. PitStop complained about V5 and wouldn't install. We removed V5, installed PitStop and reinstalled V5 and it all works like a charm.
Down in the trade-shop trenches we have to produce forms efficiently to bid competitively. We experiment with many techniques to save time. Naturally, we cannot expect to get Acrobat support with our violating, multi-version setup, but this is a small sacrifice because our experience with "support" is that they really aren't fluent in deep product usage.

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Never mind - I figured it out. Right click on the cluster containing my controls and select "Reorder controls in cluster..."

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5) Check the checkbox "Allow anyone with a link to view this document".
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[email protected]

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