How to make the cursor, you can enter jtextfield, but the only way to give it text is to click a button?

Question

I have jTextfield and jButton ..

as

• the user can click on jTextfield (the mouse can enter / exit jtextfield), but if the user types something, he will not do anything (except for the backspace, which will delete all the text)
• when the user clicks a button, he will

jTextfield.setText ("something");

so the only way to give jtextfield text is to click

• when there is text (when the cursor is inside jtextfield), then the user enters the return space, it deletes all the text in jtextfield ..

how to do it?

sorry my english .. thanks so much for any help ..

Answer 1

DocumentFilter, JTextField :

 public class Test {

    public void initComponents() {

        //create frame

        //add DoucmentFilter to JTextField
        MyDocumentFilter myFilter = new MyDocumentFilter();
        JTextField myArea = new JTextField();
        ((AbstractDocument)myArea.getDocument()).setDocumentFilter(myFilter);

         //add components set frame visible
    }

 }

class MyDocumentFilter extends DocumentFilter {

    @Override
    public void replace(FilterBypass fb, int i, int i1, String string, AttributeSet as) throws BadLocationException {
        super.replace(fb, i, i1, string, as);
    }

    @Override
    public void remove(FilterBypass fb, int i, int i1) throws BadLocationException {
        super.remove(fb, i, i1);
    }

    @Override
    public void insertString(FilterBypass fb, int i, String string, AttributeSet as) throws BadLocationException {
        super.insertString(fb, i, string, as);
    }

}

JTextField, DocumentFilter ( ) - :

public class MyCustomField extends JTextField {

    public MyCustomField(int cols) {
        super(cols);
    }

    protected Document createDefaultModel() {
        return ((Document) new MyDocument());
    }

    static class MyDocument extends DocumentFilter {

        @Override
        public void insertString(FilterBypass fb, int i, String string, AttributeSet as) throws BadLocationException {
            super.insertString(fb, i, string, as);
        }

        @Override
        public void remove(FilterBypass fb, int i, int i1) throws BadLocationException {
            super.remove(fb, i, i1);
        }

        @Override
        public void replace(FilterBypass fb, int i, int i1, String string, AttributeSet as) throws BadLocationException {
            super.replace(fb, i, i1, string, as);
        }
    }
}

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import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;

public class Test {

   public void initComponents() {

      JPanel panel = new JPanel();
      final MyDocumentFilter myFilter = new MyDocumentFilter();
      final JTextField myArea = new JTextField(20);
      ((AbstractDocument) myArea.getDocument()).setDocumentFilter(myFilter);

      panel.add(myArea);

      panel.add(new JButton(new AbstractAction("Set Text") {

         @Override
         public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
            myFilter.setFiltering(false);
            myArea.setText("Fe Fi Fo Fum");
            myFilter.setFiltering(true);
         }
      }));

      JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, panel);

      // add components set frame visible
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      new Test().initComponents();
   }

}

class MyDocumentFilter extends DocumentFilter {
   private boolean filtering = true;

   @Override
   public void replace(FilterBypass fb, int i, int i1, String string,
         AttributeSet as) throws BadLocationException {
      if (!filtering) {
         super.replace(fb, i, i1, string, as);
      }
   }

   @Override
   public void remove(FilterBypass fb, int i, int i1)
         throws BadLocationException {
      int offset = 0;
      int length = fb.getDocument().getLength();
      super.remove(fb, offset, length);
   }

   @Override
   public void insertString(FilterBypass fb, int i, String string,
         AttributeSet as) throws BadLocationException {
      if (!filtering) {
         super.insertString(fb, i, string, as);         
      }
   }

   public void setFiltering(boolean filtering) {
      this.filtering = filtering;
   }

}

Answer 2

jTextfield, keyTyped, e.getKeyChar(), backspace, , e.consume();

keychar backspace 8

:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextField;


public class ConsumeExceptForBackSpace extends JFrame {

    private boolean canWrite = false;

    public ConsumeExceptForBackSpace() {
        super();

        JButton b = new JButton("Click");
        JTextField f = new JTextField("");
        this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        this.add(b, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        this.add(f, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

        b.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                canWrite = !canWrite;
            }
        });

        f.addKeyListener(new KeyListener() {

            @Override
            public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
                if(e.getKeyChar() != KekEvent.VK_BACK_SPACE && !canWrite) e.consume();
            }

            @Override
            public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {

            }

            @Override
            public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {

            }
        });

        this.pack();
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        this.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new ConsumeExceptForBackSpace();
    }
}