This question seems to be a duplicate of Press TAB to next Java in Vertical axis component.
It looks like repeating your question can be beneficial... ;-) For convenience, I have repeated my answer here as well - again using the Customizing Focus Traversal topic in How to Use the Focus Subsystem tutorial that was already mentioned (in the answer to your other question) by Aqua:
private void tryCustomFocusTraversal() {
final JFrame frame = new JFrame("Stack Overflow: vertical tab order");
frame.setBounds(100, 100, 800, 600);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
final JPanel panel = new JPanel(null);
final JTextField[] jTextFieldArray = new JTextField[22];
int k = 130;
int h = 10;
for (int i = 0; i < jTextFieldArray.length; ++i) {
jTextFieldArray[i] = new JTextField();
jTextFieldArray[i].setBounds(k, h, 120, 25);
String s = Integer.toString(i + 1);
jTextFieldArray[i].setText(s);
h += 30;
panel.add(jTextFieldArray[i]);
if (i == 10) k = 430;
if (i == 10) h = 10;
}
frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
frame.setFocusTraversalPolicy(new CustomFocusTraversalPolicy(Arrays.asList(jTextFieldArray)));
frame.setVisible(true);
}
Which uses the CustomFocusTraversalPolicy
class:
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.FocusTraversalPolicy;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class CustomFocusTraversalPolicy extends FocusTraversalPolicy {
private final List<Component> componentOrder = new ArrayList<>();
public CustomFocusTraversalPolicy(final List<Component> componentOrder) {
this.componentOrder.addAll(componentOrder);
}
public Component getComponentAfter(final Container focusCycleRoot, final Component aComponent) {
return componentOrder.get((componentOrder.indexOf(aComponent) + 1) % componentOrder.size());
}
public Component getComponentBefore(final Container focusCycleRoot, final Component aComponent) {
final int currentIndex = componentOrder.indexOf(aComponent);
return componentOrder.get(currentIndex > 0 ? currentIndex - 1 : componentOrder.size() - 1);
}
public Component getFirstComponent(final Container focusCycleRoot) {
return componentOrder.get(0);
}
public Component getLastComponent(final Container focusCycleRoot) {
return componentOrder.get(componentOrder.size() - 1);
}
public Component getDefaultComponent(final Container focusCycleRoot) {
return getFirstComponent(focusCycleRoot);
}
}