Customising Swing JTextField

[David]

Hi,

Im trying to create a custom text box. What I have done is inherited
from the JTextField class, and attached key listeners. However,
obviously swing is calling my listeners then processing the JTextFields
ones. Without using the formatter etc... I want to block key events
from being processed by JTextField. Any ideas how I can achieve this?
Ive tried looking at the source, but just cant seem to find any way to
do this apart from Key-Binding every key on the keyboard, which seems
insane. Im sure theres something easy im missing.

Thanks for the help

David

 

[Richard Wheeldon]

Im trying to create a custom text box. Without using the formatter etc...

Why? What's wrong with JFormattedTextField?

Richard

 

[hiwa]

Hi,

Im trying to create a custom text box. What I have done is inherited
from the JTextField class, and attached key listeners. However,
obviously swing is calling my listeners then processing the JTextFields
ones. Without using the formatter etc... I want to block key events
from being processed by JTextField. Any ideas how I can achieve this?
Ive tried looking at the source, but just cant seem to find any way to
do this apart from Key-Binding every key on the keyboard, which seems
insane. Im sure theres something easy im missing.

Thanks for the help

David

Yours may be DocumentFilter's job.

 

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

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Hi,

Im trying to create a custom text box. What I have done is inherited from
the JTextField class, and attached key listeners. However, obviously swing
is calling my listeners then processing the JTextFields ones. Without
using the formatter etc... I want to block key events from being processed
by JTextField. Any ideas how I can achieve this? Ive tried looking at the
source, but just cant seem to find any way to do this apart from
Key-Binding every key on the keyboard, which seems insane. Im sure theres
something easy im missing.

On a related topic, I would like to move some spell checking code from a
class I have now into a SpellCheckedTextArea, so some pointers on how best
to subclass a TextArea would also be helpful. Pointers to good references
would work as well.

Thanks.

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Kenneth P. Turvey <[email protected]>
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