A JPanel created after a JavaScript call is made into an Applet will
not receive keyboard focus.

The attached KeyboardTest.java and Test.html files demonstrate the
problem as long as the applet was signed or if a new policy was added to
lib\security\java.policy file as adding:
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permission java.security.AllPermission;
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right after the "grant {" line.


The applet embeds a JTextArea into a JPanel, then adds the JPanel
to the applet's content pane. All keyboard entry is trapped by
the JPanel KeyListener, and entered into the JTextArea.

The first time the TextAreaJPanel is added to the applet
everything works fine, when you click on the JavaScript link, the
previous JPanelTextArea is removed and a new one is loaded. From
this point on the JPanelTextArea no longer receives keyboard input.
If you have the Java Console open when you are running the applet
it will display something like the folllowing:


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Java(TM) Plug-in: Version 1.4.2_02
Using JRE version 1.4.2_02 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
User home directory = E:\WINNT\Profiles\szaboa.000 Proxy Configuration: No
proxy ----------------------------------------------------
c: clear console window
f: finalize objects on finalization queue
g: garbage collect
h: display this help message
l: dump classloader list
m: print memory usage
o: trigger logging
p: reload proxy configuration
q: hide console
r: reload policy configuration
s: dump system properties
t: dump thread list
v: dump thread stack
x: clear classloader cache
0-5: set trace level to <n>
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java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager@51052d
java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager@d85cc


Indicating that the KeyboardFoucusManager has been replaced prior
to JavaScript calling the applet's loadNewJPanel method. This
behavior illustrates the failure,

The problem only occurs with the Internet Explorer browser (used IE version: 6.00.2462.0000)
and on Microsoft Windows operation systems.