Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "Brandon McCombs" Subject: Re: JTextField - how to d Message-ID: <4594474c$0$18151$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> X-Comment-To: comp.lang.java.gui Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui In-Reply-To: <1167304576.838208.126060@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com> References: <1167304576.838208.126060@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 34 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:27:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303918079 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:27:59 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:27:59 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.gui:517 To: comp.lang.java.gui dako wrote: > mearvk napisal(a): >> dako wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Has anybody an idea, how to do it? I'll be lucky. >>> >>> Regards, dako >> Have you tried JTextField.setEditable(false) ? >> >> If this isn't the problem could you try and make the problem a bit >> clearer? >> >> Mearvk > > OK, I'll try explain the problem more clearly :) even though I have't > felt comfortable writing EN yet... > > I don't need to disable selecting the component for a while or ages..., > but only text within the component. > > I hope, it's an enough discribe my problem. > setEnabled(false) and setEditable(false) are different and setEditable(false) would be what you want to prevent people from putting text in it. Disabling the component is done by setEnabled() which wasn't what Mearvk proposed to you. --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24