Making control have initial focus

[Mike London]

I don't see how to see how to set the initial focus of a JTextField in a JFrame after the JFrame loads.
I want to have focus already be inside the first text field.
There should be an easy way to set the initial focus, but I haven't found it. This would be analogous to setting the "Tab-Order" in Microsoft products.
I've tried things like:
jTextField.setFocusCycleRoot(true);
TextField.requestFocus();
But nothing works.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
-- Mike

[Raj K]

Try this:
this.addWindowListener(new java.awt.event.WindowAdapter()
{
public void windowOpened(WindowEvent e)
{
your_textfield.requestFocus();
}
}

[Dorothy Finkel-Laverty]

The trick to it is to requestFocus() AFTER you have setVisible to true, not before. It seems to be negated if you setVisible to true after you request focus.

[Mike London]

Yes, using WindowAdaptor worked.
Thank you!!!
-- Mike