Very Strange Focus problem

Question

I've encountered a very strange focus problem that I hope someone can help me
with. In my frame, I have a toolbar and some JTextFields. When I press one of
the toolbar buttons, I do whatever and at the very end I use requestFocusInWindow()
to set the focus to one of the JTextFields. Now here's the strange part. If I don't
touch the keyboard or the mouse, I can see the caret in the JTextField as expected.
As soon as I move the mouse or touch any key, the focus changes to the next
toolbar button. Makes no sense to me. By the way, I'm running 1.4 on Windows NT.

Answer 1

Create a new class ToolbarButton extends JButton where you have the following method:
     * Identifies whether or not this component can receive the focus.
     * A disabled button, for example, would return false.
     * @return true if this component can receive the focus
    public boolean isFocusTraversable() {
       return false;
    }This prevents the buttons from getting keyboard focus, this makes only sense for toolbar buttons.
Cheers,
Taoufik