The test code below pops up a modal dialog; click Ok and it opens a frame with a TextField. Under solaris java 1.5 rc (-b63) I'm unable to enter text in the TextField until I remove focus from the frame and come back. I use Gnome 2.0 with pointer-focus so this means I simply move the mouse off the frame and back over it. I don't see the probem with any of the following changes:
- Use java 1.4.2
- Use java 1.5 on windows
- Use a non-modal dialog
- Dispose of the modal dialog before opening the new frame
Obviously I have fixed my own code using the last item listed above.. I'm not sure if this is a bug or just improper usage, but I'm reporting it just in case. The problem is intermittent, but seems to happen most of the time. I'm actually using swing but I wrote my test code with awt for the simplest test case I could find.

Here is the test code:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class focus implements ActionListener, Runnable
{
  static Dialog dialog;

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Button b = new Button("Go");
    b.addActionListener(new focus());
    dialog = new Dialog(new Frame(), "dialog", true);
    dialog.add(b);
    dialog.setBounds(10, 10, 200, 100);
    dialog.setVisible(true);
  }

  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ev) {
    EventQueue.invokeLater(new focus());
  }

  public void run() {
// dialog.dispose();
    TextField t = new TextField();
    Frame app = new Frame();
    app.add(t);
    app.setBounds(10, 10, 300, 120);
    app.setVisible(true);
    dialog.dispose();
  }
}