JTabbedPane focus question with buttons

Question

Hi. I have a JTabbedPane with an OK button on each pane. clicking the OK button will remove that pane from the JTabbedPane. But if I don't move the mouse, and click the OK button to remove the next pane, I have to click TWICE, OR move the mouse just a little bit before clicking, then it will go away. Here's the code. How can I make this work so one click will do it? Thanks...
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class TabbedFocusTest extends JPanel implements ActionListener {
private JTabbedPane tabbedPane;
private JPanel panel1;
private JPanel panel2;
private JPanel panel3;
private JPanel panel4;
public TabbedFocusTest() {
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon("images/middle.gif");
tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
     panel1 = new JPanel();
Component text1 = makeTextPanel("Blah");
     JButton button1 = new JButton("OK");
     button1.setActionCommand("1");
     panel1.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
     panel1.add(text1, BorderLayout.NORTH);
     panel1.add(button1, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
tabbedPane.addTab("One", icon, panel1, "Does nothing");
tabbedPane.setSelectedIndex(0);
     panel2 = new JPanel();
Component text2 = makeTextPanel("Blah 2");
     JButton button2 = new JButton("OK");
     button2.setActionCommand("2");
     panel2.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
     panel2.add(text2, BorderLayout.NORTH);
     panel2.add(button2, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
tabbedPane.addTab("Two", icon, panel2, "Does twice as much nothing");
     panel3 = new JPanel();
Component text3 = makeTextPanel("Blah 3");
     JButton button3 = new JButton("OK");
     button3.setActionCommand("3");
     panel3.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
     panel3.add(text3, BorderLayout.NORTH);
     panel3.add(button3, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
tabbedPane.addTab("Three", icon, panel3, "nothing 3");
     panel4 = new JPanel();
Component text4 = makeTextPanel("Blah 4");
     JButton button4 = new JButton("OK");
     button4.setActionCommand("4");
     panel4.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
     panel4.add(text4, BorderLayout.NORTH);
     panel4.add(button4, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
tabbedPane.addTab("Four", icon, panel4, "Nothing 4");
     button1.addActionListener(this);
     button2.addActionListener(this);
     button3.addActionListener(this);
     button4.addActionListener(this);
//Add the tabbed pane to this panel.
setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 1));
add(tabbedPane);
protected Component makeTextPanel(String text) {
JPanel panel = new JPanel(false);
JLabel filler = new JLabel(text);
filler.setHorizontalAlignment(JLabel.CENTER);
panel.setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 1));
panel.add(filler);
return panel;
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
     System.out.println(e.getActionCommand());
     if (e.getActionCommand().equals("1"))
     tabbedPane.remove(panel1);
     if (e.getActionCommand().equals("2"))
     tabbedPane.remove(panel2);
     if (e.getActionCommand().equals("3"))
     tabbedPane.remove(panel3);
     if (e.getActionCommand().equals("4"))
     tabbedPane.remove(panel4);
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("TabbedFocusTest");
frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {System.exit(0);}
frame.getContentPane().add(new TabbedFocusTest(),
BorderLayout.CENTER);
frame.setSize(400, 125);
frame.setVisible(true);

Answer 1

Thanks for the suggestion - I added this line at the end of actionPerformed() but it did not help:
tabbedPane.getSelectedComponent().requestFocus();