Can you make an editable label?

Question

Quick question, can you make a textfield, that looks like a JLabel, but that can still be edited? You could still change its size and its font, but the background + the border should be gone. As of now, I'm trying to do this with Swing. What you would still see is the small blinking cursor that waits until you press something once focused.

Answer 1

Apart from the fact that, that's only going to confuse the users a lot, you could use a simple

textField.setBackground(null);
textField.setBorder(null);

Answer 2

It is impossible to make an editable label as it exists. You can use a jTextField with no border and same background as the JFrame.

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Having said that, you can add a KeyListener to your JLabel and update your label's text depending on the key that was pressed. Similarly, you can implement a caret using | and a seperate thread to make it blink. But as Andrew Thompson very correctly said, "Anything is possible, much less is sensible".

Cheers.

Answer 3

You can try using JTextField without border and with same background color as frame

JFrame frame = new JFrame();

frame.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setSize(300,300);

JTextField textField = new JTextField("some text");
textField.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder());
textField.setBackground(frame.getBackground());

frame.getContentPane().add(textField);

frame.setVisible(true);

Answer 4

Yes you can do it :D Anything is possible. So the ways i can think (Although i havent tried them) is either by mending the background of the textfield with the background and setting the border to null, Or by creating a custom JtextField implementation and override those methods, or by doing it the hard way and override Jlabel class to put in the feature of changing the text but that is harder than the two other recomended ways.