I would like to add a hint value to my JTextField. It should look like Firefox rendering of <input type="text" title="bla">. This creates a edit field with the text 'bla' in the background. If the textbox has focus the title-text disappeares and just reappears if the user leaves the editbox without text. Is there a (free) swing componen...
Is it possible to draw diagonal lines over a JTextField (or any other Swing control as well) without just putting a panel over the textbox? ...
Problems: I am unable to get the values of the JTextFields or the rollResultTotal to update. Even if the data in the JTextFields are valid, a NumberFormatException is still thrown. Questions: Why don't the variables stay? Is this due to declaration in the class itself? Is it possible to update a JLabel panel to show an updated resu...
I am trying to bind a JTextField to a bean's field that is a double using JGoodies Binding: JTextField myJTextField = ... BeanAdapter adapter = ... Bindings.bind(myJTextField, ConverterFactory.createStringConverter(adapter.getValueModel("amplitude"), new DecimalFormat("0.00000"))); This works, at least in the bean ...
The desired behavior is akin to the mirrored text editing field provided in Excel when a given cell is selected, allowing more space to view the contents of the cell. I have a JTable with 5 columns and n rows. Column 2 holds expressions that can be arbitrarily long, thus I'd like to provide a separate JTextField to work with for editing ...
I have a snippet that change the color of a JTextField : textField.setBackground(new Color(155, 0, 0, 155)); When the color is changing, the component has a strange behaviour: the cursor twinkling becomes not regular, as so the color opacity that seems to change on ongoing repaint events. If the color is created without specifying al...
Which type of Listener do I use for listening to changed text events in a JTextField? (I should know this or be able to tell from the Javadoc but I can't seem to figure it out.) ...
I am utilizing a few JFormattedTextFields in my program. For some reason when the text field gains focus after a click on the text field, the caret position always jumps to the left (position 0). I would like the caret to end up at the location clicked by the user. So if I click in between two digits, the caret should end up in between t...
I want to use a JFormattedTextField to allow the user to input time duration values into a form. Sample valid values are: 2h 30m 72h 15m 6h 0h However I am having limited success with this. Can some one please suggest how this can be accomplished? I am OK if this result can be achieved using a JTextField as well. Thanks! If it is w...
I have people entering alot of ammounts in form, so pressing one key less is what will count on huge ammounts of data. Idea is not to press decimal separator when entering currency ammount. I need some subclass of JTextField which will automatically show decimal and thousand separators while entering number. Is out there something alrea...
import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.awt.GridBagConstraints; import java.awt.GridBagLayout; import java.awt.Insets; public class MainForm extends JFrame{ private JPanel p; private JButton clear; private JLabel nameLabel; private JTextField nameText; private JLabel genderLabel...
The code is like this: JTextField txt = new JTextField(); txt.setBorder(BorderFactory.createMatteBorder(2,2,2,2,Color.red)); However the text field is ignoring my call to setBorder. No changes whatsoever. I were to replace it with a JLabel (for instance) JLabel txt = new JLabel(); txt.setBorder(BorderFactory.createMatteBorder(2,2,2...
Is there anyway to remove a border in a JTextField? txt = new JTextField(); txt.setBorder(null); // <-- this has no effect. I would really want it to look like a JLabel - but I still need it to be a JTextField because I want people to be able highlight it. ...
I would like to increase the spacing / padding / insets for the JTextField and JTextArea. Effectively increase the spacing between the two read line on the image ...
Hello all, i would like to know how to use a DocumentListener/DocumentEvent in java to prevent the user from deleting a certain portion of text in a JTextField, like on the windows command prompt or unix Terminal.. they show the current working directory and you can't delete past the > or $ can anyone help me? thanks ...
Hi! I work on a school project and I am now wondering if it is possible to get text from JTextField with get? // Textrutor JTextField textTitel = new JTextField(null, 20); textTitel.setToolTipText("ex. Flickan som lekte med elden"); JTextField textSort = new JTextField(null, 10); textSort.setToolTipText...
doesn't .getKeyCode( ) return the key's int value? Because i have set my jtextfield to listen to keylistener, and in the keytyped method, i check what key has been pressed. Here's a snippet of my code: JTextField jtf = new JTextField( ); jtf.addKeyListener( this ); . . . public void keyTyped( KeyEvent e ) { if( e.getKeyCode( ) == Ke...
We are building our own Web Browser in Java. It doesn't have to be anything too complicated, we just want several things to do so we could distinguish our project from others. What we want to know is this: Is it possible to somehow embed a JTextField object into a JMenuItem? To be more precise, we want our address bar (text field) to ...
I have a tabbed pane with a couple of uneditable JTextFields which I want to fill in with information from a database. However, when I set the text in the text fields to anything, it doesn't show up when I run the program. When I get the text and print it out, it does show. What could be the problem here? public void input() { UI...
I am working on a Java project and need to have a keypress simulate a click on a JTextField. What I'm looking for is the equivalent of the JButton doClick() method. I am trying to have the keypress "enter" perform the exact same function as a click on the JTextField. Not sure what other info to provide. Thanks in advance. ...