JTextField Question.

[dougie1809]

Hi,

If you have a JTextField with a setText("Enter name here: "), what class and/or method can I use so when I click on that JTextField, it removes that String in the setText method? Instead of having to manually backspacing 'Enter name here:' all the time?
Thanks

[KevinWorkman]

MouseListener? FocusListener? CaretListener?

[DarrylBurke]

Or use camickr's Text Prompt « Java Tips Weblog

Moving to AWT/Swing

db

[dougie1809]

Thanks guys that worked

[cristian.rivera]

In netbeans you can set the action mouseClicked and inside of that put something like jTextField.setText(null);

[Fubarable]

In netbeans you can set the action mouseClicked and inside of that put something like jTextField.setText(null);

Not good, because what if they arrive in the field via tab key press? Much better to use a FocusListener and to not set the text to null but to "".

[cristian.rivera]

Not good, because what if they arrive in the field via tab key press? Much better to use a FocusListener and to not set the text to null but to "".

Thats true, i didn't think about that