Basic doubts needed for urgency!!!!!

[Sri Ram]

Hi Friends
Could someone suggest me how to main tab order in an application?
Regards
Sriram

[Renee Zhang]

By default, TAB and CTRL-TAB move focus forward, and SHIFT-TAB and CTRL-SHIFT-TAB move focus backward.

[Sri Ram]

should the ordering of the awt items be according to the tab?
for eg.
textfield 1
textfield 2
textfield 3
textfield 4
be like this what
add(txtField1);
add(txtField2);
add(txtField3);
add(txtField4);
Do you mean to say that this would maintain tab order itself?
How about for combobox then?

[Renee Zhang]

Your example works. But you may add jTextField1.setNextFocusableComponent(jTextField3) to change the order. And I found an example from a book for you.
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Test extends JFrame {
private JButton button_1 = new NotFocusTraversableButton(),
button_2 = new ButtonThatManagesFocus(),
button_3 = new JButton("regular button"),
button_4 = new JButton("regular button"),
button_5 = new JButton("request focus disable"),
button_6 = new JButton("next focusable component set to manages Focus button");
public Test () {
enableEvents(AWTEvent.WINDOW_EVENT_MASK);
try {
jbInit();
}
catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new Test();
frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
System.exit(0);
}
});
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
}
private void jbInit () {
Container contentPane = getContentPane();
FocusCycleRootPanel panel = new FocusCycleRootPanel();
button_5.setRequestFocusEnabled(false);
button_6.setNextFocusableComponent(button_2);
panel.add(button_3);
panel.add(button_4);
panel.add(button_5);
contentPane.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
contentPane.add(button_1);
contentPane.add(button_2);
contentPane.add(panel);
contentPane.add(button_6);
}
}
class ButtonThatManagesFocus extends JButton {
public ButtonThatManagesFocus () {
super("Manages Focus");
}
public boolean isManagingFocus () {
return true;
}
public void processComponentKeyEvent (KeyEvent e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
}
class NotFocusTraversableButton extends JButton {
public NotFocusTraversableButton () {
super ("Not Focus Traversable");
}
public boolean isFocusTraversable () {
return false;
}
}
class FocusCycleRootPanel extends JPanel {
public FocusCycleRootPanel () {
setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("FocusCycleRoot panel"));
}
public boolean isFocusCycleRoot () {
return true;
}
}

Good luck!

[Renee Zhang]

I am sorry. I was in a hurry that I didn't notice you were talking about AWT. In AWT, you may only forward programmatic traversal: Component.transferFocus(). You may find some detail at http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/javaOne2001/1315/index.html