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I'll try it

Posted by Lisa on July 05, 2000 at 12:17 PM

> Thanks Mike - I'll give it a try!

I didn't read the book lately, but i belive that to set a
> text into a Button u have to do this :
> yourButton.setText("your text");
> to capture the focus u have to do this:
> yourButton.grabFocus();
> but im not shure if it works in swing and in awt

> Mike

> > I'm having trouble with Chap 13 Ex 5. I'm not sure what code to use to type text into a Button field & how to capture the focus. I've been stuck for 2 days now so I'm hoping someone has an example to share to get me past this.