Setting focus in JOptionPane.showInputDialog

Hi!
For usability I want to set the focus to the dialog that pops up if i call JOptionPane.showInputDialog(...).
Someone an idea how this works?
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Hi...
I am facing exactly the same problem... If you have found a solution, please contact me at:
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Hello guys,
I create a
String options[] = {"Ok", "Cancle"};
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and inside this JOptionPane, there is a JTextField for receive what user input,
when I set this JTextField to be the default focus, the Ok and cancle button don't receive
action from Enter key, they are accepted only Mouse-clicked action.
Do you have another idea to make the button can accept the action from Enter key?

thank you, but I forgot to tell you that my JTextField is JPasswordField.
And we can't add keylistener to String, can we?
this is my code:
JTextField acodeField = new JPasswordField(12);
String[] buttonLabels = {"OK","Cancel"};
do
acodeField.setText("");
option = pane.showOptionDialog(this,
panel,
super.getTitle(),
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JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE,
null,
buttonLabels,
acodeField);
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if (option != 0 || option < 0) {
return option;
} while (authCode.compareTo(acodeField.getText()) != 0);

JOptionPane.showInputDialog and Focus

I have a program that allows the user to type in a String in a text box and when they hit the enter key the text will appear in a text area. I've also added a menu bar to the program. When the user clicks on File and then Connect from the menu bar I want a JOptionPane to pop up that asks for the user to type in a username and then prompt for a password. And I've gotten all of that to work. Now for the problem. I click on file from the menu bar and then connect and it prompts me for the username as it should. I am able to just type in a phrase in the text field of the username dialog box and hit the enter key and then it prompts me for my password. I am still able to type in a phrase in the text field of the password Dialog box, however when I hit the enter key, the Dialog box does not close as it did for the username Dialog box. It will still close if I click on the OK button, but just pressing the enter key does not close the Dialog box as it did when it prompted for a username. I'm thinking I need to direct the focus to the password dialog box, but not sure how to go about doing this. Any help in solving this problem would be greatly appreciated.
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import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
class TestJOptionPane extends JFrame implements ActionListener{
     private static int borderwidth = 570;
     private static int borderheight = 500;
     private JPanel p1 = new JPanel();
     private JMenu m1 = new JMenu("File");
     private JMenuBar mb1 = new JMenuBar();
     private JTextArea ta1 = new JTextArea("");
     private JTextField tf1 =new JTextField();
     private Container pane;
     private static String s1, username, password;
     private JMenuItem [] mia1 = {new JMenuItem("Connect"),new JMenuItem("DisConnect"),
          new JMenuItem("New..."), new JMenuItem ("Open..."), new JMenuItem ("Save"),
          new JMenuItem ("Save As..."), new JMenuItem ("Exit")};
public TestJOptionPane (){
     pane = this.getContentPane();
          addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
               public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
     dispose();
System.exit(0);
     setJMenuBar(mb1);
mb1.add(m1);
for(int j=0; j<mia1.length; j++){
     m1.add(mia1[j]);
p1.setLayout( new BorderLayout(0,0));
setSize(borderwidth, borderheight);
pane.add(p1);
          p1.add(tf1, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          p1.add(ta1, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          this.show();
          tf1.addActionListener(this);
          for(int j=0; j<mia1.length; j++){
               mia1[j].addActionListener(this);
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
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               password = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(pane, "Password");
          if(source.equals(tf1)){
               s1=tf1.getText();
               ta1.append(s1+"\n");
               s1="";
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}

But using JOptionPane doesn't get the focus when you call itworks ok like this
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
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public Testing()
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JOptionPane.showInputDialog Help!!!!

Hello,
I'm using JOptionPane.showInputDialog(Component parentComponent,
Object message,
String title,
int messageType,
Icon icon,
Object[] selectionValues,
Object initialSelectionValue ).
which prompts the user to add some text and the same will be stored for later retrieval.
In this case, JOptionPane pops up with a label, textfield,OK & Cancel buttons.
Default focus is given to to the TextField.
Is there anyway to get access to the TextField via code ?
For example, if the user types "Hello World" in the given TextField, then I need to get the Text entered in
the TextField in the following manner.
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How can I Achieve the same ?
Thanks in advance
Regards
vargav

Why? At what point do you know you should manipulate the text? Usually, it would be when the user clicks OK, at which point it doesn't matter because the dialog is dismissed. So what kind of operations do you expect to be able to do?
Aside from that, I'm not sure how to get the text field in the option pane, per se... It can be gotten by digging thru the pane's components til you find a text field. But you'd need to do that in a separate thread. So it's not really feasible to do that.... There is an alternative:
The message is an object, and it can be an array of objects, which will all be added, and thus can include a message string and a text field...
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}Then you can do whatever you want with the text field... but the same problem is there, you have lost the dialog before you can do anything.

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