Give Text Field Focus on Window Load

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so far I have…

on the Event Handlers Script, visionWindow, visionWindowOpened of my window I have
event.source.getComponent(“rootContainer”).getComponent(“txtTranxferID”).requestFocusInWindow()
this returns, TypeError: getComponent(): 1st arg can’t be coerced to int

When I place this under a button on the same window.
event.source.parent.getComponent(“txtTranxferID”).requestFocusInWindow()
it works as expected. where did I go wrong?

Thanks for the help in advance.

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Window objects don’t have named components, so they don’t take strings in their getComponent() methods. What they do have is a rootContainer property. Try this:event.source.rootContainer.getComponent("txtTranxferID").requestFocusInWindow()I’m still not sure it’ll work, though – I don’t remember if components are sufficiently initialized at the window open event to successfully claim focus.

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event.source.rootContainer.getComponent("txtTranxferID").requestFocusInWindow()

This does not throw an error but it also does not give my text field focus.

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You’ll have to wrap this call in an invokeLater so it gets called once everything else is finished processing:

system.util.invokeLater(system.gui.getParentWindow(event).getComponentForPath('Root Container.txtTranxferID').requestFocusInWindow)
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