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Re: Newbie question about updating a disabled JTextField

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From Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject Re: Newbie question about updating a disabled JTextField
Date Wed, 09 Apr 2014 07:52:33 -0400
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On 4/9/2014 6:43 AM, angel.gutierrez.rodriguez@gmail.com wrote:
> Is it possible to change the text of a JTextField when it is disabled?
>
> I do have 2 JTextFields (a & b) and sometimes, the second one is disbaled and then it has the same value as the first, so I tried:
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> b.setText(a.getText());
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> when the first one is changed. But it looks it isn't working. Do I have to enable it first?

     setText() works on enabled or on disabled fields, so the problem is
most likely somewhere else in your code.

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Eric Sosman
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Newbie question about updating a disabled JTextField angel.gutierrez.rodriguez@gmail.com - 2014-04-09 03:43 -0700
  Re: Newbie question about updating a disabled JTextField Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-04-09 07:52 -0400
  Re: Newbie question about updating a disabled JTextField FredK <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2014-04-09 07:10 -0700
    Re: Newbie question about updating a disabled JTextField angel.gutierrez.rodriguez@gmail.com - 2014-04-09 09:10 -0700
  Re: Newbie question about updating a disabled JTextField Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-04-09 11:42 -0700

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