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java.awt.Component

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard Yen)
Sat Feb 3 05:56:37 1996

Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 04:38:51 -0500
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
From: Howard Yen <hty1@cornell.edu>

Could anyone tell me what does 

requestFocus() in java.awt.Component do. I saw someones code that uses it.

// Start applet
public void start() {	
        for(int i=0; i<cols; i++)
                for(int j=0; j<rows+4; j++) {
                         field[i][j] = 0; 
	       oldfield[i][j] = -1;
	  }
        level = 5;
        pieces= 0;
        neednewpiece = true;
        lost = false;

        // spawn gravity thread
        (gravity = new Thread(this)).start();
        requestFocus(); // ????????
}

It was a tetris game

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