JTextField in a JPopupMenu

Question

I am trying to put a JTextField into a JPopupMenu. The JTextField is unable to gain focus even after calling grabFocus()/requestFocus(). From searching, it seems there is a glitch that each keep on trying to grab the focus from each other. However, I could not find any solution to the problem. Any advice would be helpful.

Answer 1

I thought he was about the ones that popup anywhere on a component via a mouseevent/popup trigger, this was a quickie..
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
public class TextFieldInMenu {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                new TextFieldInMenu().go();
    void go() {
        JFrame f = new JFrame();
        JMenuBar mb = new JMenuBar();
        JMenu menu = new JMenu("test");
        menu.add(new JMenuItem("A popup menu item"));
        menu.add(textfield);
        menu.add(new JMenuItem("Another popup menu item"));
        menu.addMenuListener(new MenuListener(){
            public void menuCanceled(MenuEvent e) {}
            public void menuDeselected(MenuEvent e) {}
            public void menuSelected(MenuEvent e) {
                EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
                    public void run() {
                        textfield.grabFocus();
        mb.add(menu);
        popup.add( new JMenuItem("A popup menu item throught a jpopupmenu" ) );
        popup.add( textfield );
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        f.getContentPane().add( panel, BorderLayout.CENTER );
        panel.addMouseListener( new MouseHandler() );
        mb.addMouseListener( new MouseHandler() );
        f.setJMenuBar(mb);
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.setSize( 640, 480 );
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    JTextField textfield = new JTextField();
    JPopupMenu popup = new JPopupMenu();
    private class MouseHandler extends MouseAdapter
         public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
              System.out.println( "Mouse pressed" );
        maybeShowPopup(e);
    public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
        maybeShowPopup(e);
    private void maybeShowPopup(MouseEvent e) {
         System.out.println( "maybeShowPopup() called" );
        if (e.isPopupTrigger()) {
            popup.show(e.getComponent(),
                       e.getX(), e.getY());
              textfield.grabFocus();
}Sorry if it's kinda messy, but it's based off BigDaddy's code and it works for me (the textfield gets focus after calling grabFocus() on it in the maybeShowPopup() method in the MouseHandler implementation of MouseAdapter.