Re: [Springframework-rcp-dev] Position of caret for readonly fields

[Rogan D. <ro...@da...>]

Andy DePue wrote:
>   If this is a Swing "feature", then I'm not aware of a simple setting 
> somewhere (maybe someone else knows of one?).  I do know that 
> DefaultCaret has a setUpdatePolicy method.  You would have to get the 
> Caret from the JTextField, make sure it is a DefaultCaret, cast it to 
> DefaultCaret, and invoke setUpdatePolicy(DefaultCaret.NEVER_UPDATE).  
> Even then, I haven't tested this, so I'm not sure if it would have the 
> desired effect.  Another approach would be to implement a 
> FormComponentInterceptor that automatically handles any JTextField that 
> is not enabled so that the caret it always placed at the beginning of 
> the field.  See SelectAllFormComponentInterceptorFactory for an example 
> of what an interceptor looks like.
> 
>   - Andy

How about calling 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/text/JTextComponent.html#setCaretPosition(int)

with a value of 0 after setting the text?

Rogan