how to hide and show cursor in JTextField?

[Roy]

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

[Mark Space]

Which cursor? Mouse? Insert caret?

[Roy]

It is the insert caret.

[Andrew Thompson]

Roy wrote:
..

>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).

--
Andrew Thompson
http://www.physci.org/

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[Roy]

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

[Mark Space]

Roy wrote:

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

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

[stephens...@gmail.com]

Excellent, thanks!

[karthi...@gmail.com]

Other option might be

JTextArea.setCaretColor(getBackground());

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old question is not in the same league as someone else's recent answer
to an *eighteen-year-old* question.)

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