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1. Is it possible to use Enter as Tab without inheriting JTextField or mass-adding key listeners?    stackoverflow.com

I've found several pages and SO answers about the enter-as-tab problem in Java, but all propose either overriding methods of JTextField or adding a key listener to every component. But isn't there ...

2. How to select text in JtextField while tabbing    stackoverflow.com

I have a JDialog with a series of JTextFields on it I would like the text each to be selected when I tab to it.

3. JTextField: focus next component when textfield is full / autoskip / Auto-Tabbing    stackoverflow.com

I want to implement autoskip with JTextField, but don't know what is the best way to do this. What is autoskip/Auto-Tabbing? When you reach the defined length limit of a textfield, ...

4. validating JTextField after TAB    stackoverflow.com

I'm using the following code to validate the text in JTextFields Text1 and Text2.

private void Text1KeyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {
    Text1.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter() {
        ...

5. JTextField and TAB key    coderanch.com

6. select text in jtextfield, but only when tabbing    coderanch.com

This is actually a bug in the Windows look and feel (it ought to behave like this by default)... Anyhoo, here's one way of solving it: Rather than adding listeners directly to the field, instead change the caret implementation. The caret implementation is a mouse listener and a focus listener. You override the focus listening stuff to select all the text ...

7. Tab Key in JApplet and JtextField    coderanch.com

Ok, I have been struggling with this for a couple of weeks off and on. I asked a similar question 2 weeks ago in the Applet forum and got little to no help. So here goes in the Swing forum: I have a JApplet with some JTextFields. I am running JDK1.4.1_01 on XP and JRE 1.4.1_01 in IE 6.0. The tab ...

8. JTextField Tab Order Changing    coderanch.com

I'm reading this that you want to tab only between 2 components (non-adjacent) If so, something like this maybe import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; class Testing extends JFrame { Object[] focusList; int focusNumber = 0; public Testing() { setLocation(400,200); setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); JPanel jp = new JPanel(new GridLayout(7,1)); JTextField tf1 = new JTextField(5); JTextField op = new JTextField(5); JTextField tf3 = new JTextField(5); JTextField ...

9. Regarding Event handling for TextField when Tab Pressed    coderanch.com

Hi, I have a text field. I am doing some validation for that text field. If the user enters some invalid value and then presses tab, then appropriate message should be displayed. What event related to the text field i have to use so that i can catch the TAB pressed. If possible please give me some sample code. Thanks in ...





10. Tabbing issue with JTextField    coderanch.com

11. JTextField Action on Tab key    coderanch.com

OK, bonus for anyone looking in here to find a solution. here's how I ended up making this work best. I should have thought of this before, but hey.. David gave me good input, but it ended up being easier to simply set up a focus listener on the JTextField and when tab took the focus away, I did my business ...

12. Tabbing bewteen textfields    coderanch.com

14. Focusing the JTextField and so on while pressing Tab    java-forums.org

i just present the code while pressing the TAB key from the keyboard i want the foucs should be moved form one textbox to checkbox and so on Java Code: public class FocusTest extends javax.swing.JFrame { /** Creates new form FocusTest */ public FocusTest() { initComponents(); } /** This method is called from within the constructor to * initialize the form. ...