how to hide and show cursor in JTextField?

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Roy - 04 Jan 2008 01:05 GMT

Hi,

Is there any way to hide the cursor in the JTextField and show the
cursor when I click this field? It'd be great if I click other area
or components in the panel, hide the cursor in the JTextField again.

Thanks a lot.
Roy

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Mark Space - 04 Jan 2008 01:57 GMT

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> Thanks a lot.
> Roy

Which cursor? Mouse? Insert caret?

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Roy - 04 Jan 2008 04:13 GMT

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> Which cursor? Mouse? Insert caret?

It is the insert caret.

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Andrew Thompson - 04 Jan 2008 04:35 GMT

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>It is the insert caret.

Your comments do not make much sense to me.

There is an applet here that will pop a dialog with a
JTextField and JTextArea (click the 'Input' button).
<http://www.physci.org/test/resize/>

The 'insert caret' (as I understand it) will only show in
the text field/area that currently has focus, in either the
Metal or System (Win) PLAFs.

To hide the insert caret even when it is in a particular
text widget, just set the widget uneditable or disabled
(see dropdown on main applet GUI).

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http://www.physci.org/

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Roy - 04 Jan 2008 05:12 GMT

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Thanks a lot. I happened to setFocusable(false) for all other
components. So the JTextField is the only component that always has
focus. That is why the insert caret is always blinking.

Anway, I was told by a friend that a simple way to hide the caret in
this situation is to do the following:

MyTextField.getCaret().setVisible(false);

Thanks again.
Roy

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Mark Space - 04 Jan 2008 19:27 GMT

> MyTextField.getCaret().setVisible(false);

I was going to suggest the same thing Andrew did. I didn't know about
this method, good find, thanks!

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