JOptionPane focus

From:
Ian Wilson <scobloke2@infotop.co.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.gui
Date:
Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:15:24 +0100
Message-ID:
<dvCdnRL0ydAiBM3ZRVnygA@bt.com>
When I use JOptionPane's static methods to display some JTextFields,
initial focus is on one of the buttons, is it possible to set initial
focus to the JTextField?

example code:

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class MyApp3 {

   public static JFrame frame;

   private static void createAndShowGUI() {
     JFrame frame = new JFrame("A test app");
     frame.setBounds(100,100, 300, 200);
     frame.setVisible(true);
     getPassword();
   }

   private static void getPassword() {
     JPanel panel = new JPanel();
     JTextField nameField = new JTextField(10);
     JPasswordField passwordField = new JPasswordField(10);
     panel.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,2, 5,10)); // rows,cols,vgap,hgap
     panel.add (new JLabel("Name", SwingConstants.RIGHT));
     panel.add (nameField);
     panel.add (new JLabel("Password", SwingConstants.RIGHT));
     panel.add (passwordField);
     int choice = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(
       MyApp3.frame, // parent
       panel, // "message"
       "Database Log-in", // title
       JOptionPane.OK_CANCEL_OPTION, // optiontype
       JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE // messagetype: no icon
     );
     // do something with choice and credentials
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {
     javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
       public void run() { createAndShowGUI(); }
     });
   }

}

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