JTextField : Java Glossary

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JTextField

single line display of text on the screen. Sometimes you permit the user to edit it with setEditable ( true ); The equivalent in AwT is called TextField. AWT TextField has an advantage over JTextfield. Without any coding, the user can select, copy and paste, even in an unsigned Applet.

To control just what characters can go in the JTextField you can use a JFormattedTextField or JTextField. setInputVerifier.

HTML

You can embed HTML, (e.g. <u>...</u> to underline) in the text you render in a JTextField if you do a:

// allow embedded html in your rendered text
jTextField.setContentType( "text/html" );

Learning More

Sun’s Javadoc on the JTextField class : available:

on the web at java.Sun.com
in the JDK 1.6.0_07 or in JDK 1.5.0_16 on your local J: drive.

Sun’s Javadoc on the JFormattedTextField class : available:

on the web at java.Sun.com
in the JDK 1.6.0_07 or in JDK 1.5.0_16 on your local J: drive.

AWT
JEditorPane
JLabel
JTextArea
JTextPane
Swing
TextArea
TextField
ToolTip

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