TextField in Java
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bananaman
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Posted: 13 Feb 2008 01:01:08 pm    Post subject:
I'm using a JTextField in a Java Application and I am wondering if it is possible to put a picture for the background of the field. I know that with most J... components you can use setIcon method to place a picture for the background of the component. The JTextField component does not have such a method. Is there a way to place a gif image as the background of a JTextField?
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Zaphod Beeblebrox


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Posted: 13 Feb 2008 04:55:41 pm    Post subject:
Their are few things I can think of, none of which I think will work:

[font="Courier"]TextArea.getAccessibleContextContext().setBackground(icon icon)

TextArea.getAccessibleContextContext().setIcon(icon icon)

If you declared this with something like:
[font="Courier"]JPanel panel = new JPanel("_");
JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea(args);
panel.add(textArea);
You could add in a line that says [font="Courier"]panel.setIcon(icon);.

That's all I can think of.
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elfprince13
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Posted: 13 Feb 2008 08:40:53 pm    Post subject:
this is disgustingly hackish, but something along the lines of this:


Code:
JTextField jtf = new JTextField(){
paint(Graphics g){
g.setFont(this.getFont());
IconImage ii = new IconImage("lol.png");
ii.paintIcon(jtf, g, 0, 0);
g.drawString(jtf.getText(), jtf.getInsets().left, jtf.getInsets().top);
}
};


oughta do it.
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bananaman
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Posted: 13 Feb 2008 09:51:36 pm    Post subject:
That is extremely hackish. For what I am doing I think I will make it so that if you want to edit the field you will have to open up a dialog box and then I will just make the component on the screen be a button so that I can have its background be an image and when you click you get to edit the content.
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elfprince13
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Posted: 15 Feb 2008 04:26:26 pm    Post subject:
umm...why not just extend Label or button or something like that with a keylistener + focuslistener?
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