Swing/AWT/SWT :: Give JTextArea Focus - Using It On A Panel And With JToolBar
Apr 21, 2014
I have a program with a main panel JPanel that implements KeyListener. I added a JTextArea to which I added as the KeyListener: this, meaning the main panel. I made the JTextArea fill the entire main panel because I want to catch a key press anywhere in the main panel.I catch the key presses and the program does what I want it to.
I added a JToolBar to the program; it is working just fine.Now that I have two components on the main panel - toolbar and panel with textarea -, the textarea must have the focus before it will send the KeyEvent and call keyPressed(). I don't want to expect the user to click on the main window to get the program to start or after each time they use the toolbar.
I have tried calling both requestFocus() and requestFocusInWindow() on the textarea; neither call worked. I put the toolbar at PAGE_END instead of PAGE_START; this worked to allow the program to start but I don't want to have the toolbar at the bottom and once I clicked on a toolbar button, the textarea lost the focus.
I need to be able to give the textarea the focus when the program starts and after the user uses a toolbar button. (I suspect that if I solve the problem when the program starts, I can use the same method after handling a button press.)
When i click on the button from bottom panel, top panel need to be redrawn. But redrawing is not happening. It happens only when resizing the applet.
public class Graphics_Chart(){ public init(){ JScrollPane topPane = new JScrollPane(new ImagePanel2()); topPane.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER); topPane.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
I'm facing a problem in controlling the focus traversal mechanism inside a jframe...as i want the focus to travel from top to bottom by pressing tab key regularly , but it travels left to right and then top to bottom through the textfields... The form looks like textfield1 textfield4
textfield2 textfield5
textfield3
The focus travels from 1 to 4 , 2 to 5 and then rests at 3. but i want it to be like from 1 to 2 to 3 and then 4 and 5....
I'm trying to draw 3 triangles 'on top' of each other to give appearance of a tree. My code is below and struggling with how to set my x/y cords correctly.
Also I've drawn a rectangle under a new class and that should then be appearing in the south location of my border layout (south) - but it's not.
import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; public class Christmas1 extends JFrame { JPanel titlePanel; JLabel title;
I have dragged and dropped a jTextArea from netbeans palette onto my form. But when I right clicked for Event > action > actionPerformed for implementation, I realized such was not there, unlike the jTextField component. For example, I have tried this but it didn't work:
I need to make a simple applet, but I'm stuck with something. This is how my applet should look:
And this is how that part looks in my applet:
What I've done until now is create one JPanel which includes two other JPanels.. The first one contains only the JTextArea you can see, and the other one includes the other elements.
I just need to make the JTextArea taller, like in the example, so everything comes into place...
the focus traversal policy (hereafter "tab order") in forms and panels doesn't follow the order in which controls were inserted into the container, but is derived from the position of the components on the form or panel. This is very neat (and probably allows sloppy coders and GUI builders to exist without actually ever thinking about the tab order), except when it isn't. As when you actually want to specify a different component order, for example.
In the following example, I've created a form with two columns of buttons. I want the tab order to go through the first column of buttons, followed by second column of buttons (ie. a column-by-column schema). The default tab order is row-by-row, however, and can be obtained for reference by commenting out the setupFocus() call in the constructor.
I had hoped that the ContainerOrderFocusTraversalPolicy would do the job, but there is a couple of problems (which I've addressed in the setupFocus() method). Firstly, the container itself is part of the focus chain. This at least is easily remediable by calling setFocusable(false), but I don't have to do that with the initial focus traversal policy, so I wonder why I have to do it with this one. The other problem is more pressing, though - the ContainerOrderFocusTraversalPolicy lets me (un)hapilly tab through JLabels. Again, I've fixed this, but the initial policy knows all by itself that it's not a good idea to focus a JLabel. Moreover, I'm afraid there might be other components that do not receive focus with the original policy, but ContainerOrderFocusTraversalPolicy might plod though them.
isn't there some focus traversal policy implementation that I could just set and it would tab through exactly the same components as the original policy, except it would order them according to their order in the container?
I'm having issues with providing focus to keyboard buttons when a JInternalFrame with keyboard buttons is called in my program. So for example when the program is started the attachment called signinscn.png is called.
This screen is a JDesktopPane which calls JPanel for its components.
From here a JInternalFrame containing the buttons ESC and F1 to F4 as seen in the attachment called signinscn.png is called.
I would like the buttons in my JInternalFrame to have focus such that when a user engages the equivalent keyboard button i.e. ESC or F1 to F4 WITHOUT clicking on the JInternalFrame the respective button's action listener kicks in. At the moment only after the user clicks on the JInternalFrame do the equivalent keyboard buttons respond.
Here's the constructor of my JInternalFrame and you can see how I handle the ESC keyboard button in the constructor of the JInternalFrame (but as I mentioned only after the user has engaged the JInternalFrame):
Whenever I use setLocation(0,0), the JTextArea never moves. It is always in the top middle of the screen, not at (0,0). The same goes for setBounds(0,0,100,100) BUT the height and width are set this way, just not the location. Why is this?
How would you set a column in a JTable to make it unable to gain focus i.e. select the next column on the same row or ignore the command completely when selecting a column that should not be able to be gained focus on?
I am currently working on a project that can save text from a JTextArea and also open that same saved text. The problem I am having is that when I open the saved text file it is no longer formatted.
How the file looks before saving/closing:
public class HelloWorld{ System.out.println("Hello World!"); }
How the file looks after being saved/closed then opened:
public class HelloWorld{ System.out.println("Hello World!");}
When I save the file I'm actually saving the entire thing to a single string. When I do this the String eliminates all tabbed spacing and pushes all characters to one single line.
The only ideas I had for fixing this were to either somehow use Format in the String class or record every time user tabs and add to the String.
The problem is, the JTextArea that's created has a "limited" number of rows - it seems you can still enter more lines than the "limit", but they don't show. I thought it was a problem with the JScrollPane but I'm not so sure...
So, I have a program that allows me to dynamically add JTextAreas and then drag them around the screen. The problem is, when I add a new JTextArea, I call revlidate() to update the panel. This causes all of the JTextAreas to reset their positions. How can I prevent this from happening? It is happening on this code:
public void addBox() { drag = new DragListener(); JTextArea textArea2 = new JTextArea("Some text Some other text"); textArea2.setLineWrap(true); textArea2.setWrapStyleWord(true);
I have small problem in GUI. I have a text area which has to display my test orders now what is happening instead of the text showing up in the JtextArea its still printing to the console so this order code (yes i did not use proper code standers) runs though my order class fine but its not loading the text in the JtextArea
Order code
public static String testCase1(){ orders ords = new orders(); System.out.println("Test Case 1: " + " " + ords.getOrderDetails()); return " ";
I have a swing application that gets football scores from a website using Jsoup.
When the "Get Scores" button is pressed, the scores are printed to a JTextArea with a JScrollPane.
I have also used a SwingWorker to update the scores every couple of seconds.
My problem is that every time the JTextArea updates, the JScrollPane scrolls back to the top of the text area. I wan the scroll bar to stay where the user left it.
Here is my code (The update is currently set to update every 1 second so you can see what the scroll bar is like).
import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import org.jsoup.Jsoup; import org.jsoup.nodes.Document; import org.jsoup.select.Elements; public class frame extends JFrame {
I currently have the code set up to iterate through objects and keep track of them but how do I do the same and draw the objects on the panel window? I'm confused on what to do and how to start it.
Here's the code I have so far, the 'Car' which I want to draw extends to another class which extends to GameObject. I currently have a 'draw()' method under the 'Car' class but nothing in the 'draw()' method yet. From what I understand i'm suppose to have a 'draw()' method under 'GameObjects' class also?
public class MapView extends JPanel implements IObserver, ActionListener{ JPanel myPanel; private Timer timer = new Timer(5, this); int x = 0; int moveX = 2; public MapView(){ super.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Map:"));
[code]....
Mostly I don't understand how to go through the iterator again to paint the objects. Wouldn't I need to put another iterator under 'paintComponent()' or can it be done under 'update()' ?
how to get some shapes from the GameObjects onto my panel.
I've created a chat program, but now I need to show messages in different colors depending if the message is received or sent. I was wondering if I can use jlabel to do this but in this case I need that jlabels to scroll in a jpanel. how to do this or maybe using a rtf ?
I have this panel in a nested class in the MainPanel class and it does not display, when I launch the applet, or more like, the two menus "LineColor" and "BackColor" from the nested class ColorPanel do not display .
My panel named panelIncomeInfo are not showing the components that I have added.
public class PayrollGUI { private JPanel panelIncomeInfo = new JPanel (); private JPanel panel = new JPanel (); private JPanel panelPayCheckInfo = new JPanel (); private JButton close = new JButton ("Close");
