microba-controls

[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

Re: [Microba-controls] painting the date pickers JFormattedTextField

[Michael B. <mic...@gm...>]

Greg,
You'll have to dig deeper into the UI delegate of the control and modify
the code there. There's no straight answer for this as the DatePicker
consists of JFormattedTextField and a JButton.

Michael.
> 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
> 
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