Setting component focus in JOptionPane.showOptionDialog()

Question

In order to have custom button captions in an input dialog, I created the following code:

String key = null;
JTextField txtKey = new JTextField();        
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Answer 1

The trick is to (a) use an AncestorListener on the text component to request focus, and when the focus is lost again (given to the default button), ask for focus a second time using a FocusListener on the text component (but don't keep asking for focus after that):

final JPasswordField accessPassword = new JPasswordField();

accessPassword.addAncestorListener( new AncestorListener()
{
  @Override
  public void ancestorRemoved( final AncestorEvent event )
  {
  }
  @Override
  public void ancestorMoved( final AncestorEvent event )
  {
  }
  @Override
  public void ancestorAdded( final AncestorEvent event )
  {
    // Ask for focus (we'll lose it again)
    accessPassword.requestFocusInWindow();
  }
} );

accessPassword.addFocusListener( new FocusListener()
{
  @Override
  public void focusGained( final FocusEvent e )
  {
  }
  @Override
  public void focusLost( final FocusEvent e )
  {
    if( isFirstTime )
    {
      // When we lose focus, ask for it back but only once
      accessPassword.requestFocusInWindow();
      isFirstTime = false;
    }
  }
  private boolean isFirstTime = true;
} );

Answer 2

Dialog Focus shows how you can easily set the focus on any component in a modal dialog.