[Microba-controls] painting the date pickers JFormattedTextField

[Greg C. <cau...@gm...>]

Is there any way I can override the paintComponent method or otherwise
paint an image on the JFormattedTextField ?

I am able to add a mouse listener to the component and I want to pop
up a custom control when the user clicks on the first 20 pixels of the
DatePicker.

I have this working find and I just need to add an image for those 20
pixels.  Normally I just subclass a component and have

protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
   super.paintComponent(g);
   Image searchImage = getSearchImage();
   g.drawImage(searchImage, 1, 1, null);
}

but that doesn't work on the date picker.  Or maybe it would work if I
could indent the date picker itself, not just the text.

Any ideas?

thanks!

Greg