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

[Peter De B. <pet...@gm...>]

On 9/7/07, Rogan Dawes <ro...@da...> wrote:
>
> 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?



exactly,

But what better place to do this than in a FormComponentInterceptor?



Rogan
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