Set focus on TextField

Hi guys,
I want to focus the textfield with a cursor on it without
clicking on the same and without using Ifocusmanager as I have
taken the textField.
I have tried
stage.focus but it doesn't seem to work the way I want.
please help me..

It works.. But without clicking stage won't it happen?
I have one more query related to it..
I have n number of tfs on the stage and when I enter into the
the first tf and if it reaches the maxchar no. it
shifts its focus to the next tf. Now If I want to reenter the
text into these tfs from the start it won't replace the text
(for this i wrote tf .text="", cause of this it takes only
single char irrespective of the maxchar limit! ) So is there any
method to do it? Cause in focusmanager class it happens..and
I want to make it work without one..

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Bingo!
Hi , I am trying to make a chat application too I dont know its exactly like yours or not......I need to make it for the chat support of a website (like in some sites you have online chat with chat center guy's). For that reason I had to make it an applet , although i want to use frame but i do then how i will embed it in the web page? I encountered with the same problem you are facing but didnt solved it yet cause i have bigger problems than that. tell me you have solution.
Plz visit the following threads:
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