not able to set focus on TextBox in a GWT app

Question

This should not be causing me so much pain but it is. It is a very weird problem. In a GWT application, I have two .java files, login.java and application.java. In login.java, I

Answer 1

If your Widget extends Composite, you can:

@Override
protected void onAttach() {
    super.onAttach();
    textBoxUsername.setFocus(true);
}