I want to make it so people can type in a Text Area and when they're done typing they press a "Post!" Button which basically just adds their post as text like it works on facebook. You write something blablabla about your day, press Post!
How would I do this?
I'm doing this in NetBeans if that matters heres how my GUI looks if that helps. (I do code first then design) xd
https://imgur.com/a/xQ18P
Basically what I want is, for example I type "Hello my name is cow!" in the textarea and when I press the "POST" button I want the jLabel1 to turn into the text I wrote in the textarea.
I would suggest using JFrame!
First you need to extend you class to use it and import the API like so:
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class Example extends JFrame{}
Once you have variables for the button and text field you need to attach listeners like so:
button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
//LOGIC to grab data
}
Last to get the data from the text box you can create a simple method to be able to grab data from the textbox:
public static JTextField getData() {
return data;
}
Here is some documentation on the library here:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/JFrame.html
Related
Well, I actually feel stupid for even asking this question but: Is it possible for an ActionListener to loop back on it self? The situation is as follows (kind shorthandish because it is a lot of in itself sound code that does nothing to the problem)
JMenuItem Menu=new JMenuItem();
Menu.addActionListener(e -> {
JDialog Dialog=new JDialog();
JTextField Name= new JTextField("",30);
JFormattedTextField ID =new JFormattedTextField(NumberFormat.getIntegerInstance());
ID.setColumns(8);
JButton Enter=new JButton();
\\GUI building stuff
Enter.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
Integer ImportID=((Number) ID.getValue()).intValue();
String ImportName= Name.getText();
System.out.println("Eingaben\n"+ImportID);
System.out.println(ImportName);
//loads of different stuff
Dialog.dispose();
System.out.println(ImportID);
System.out.println(ImportName);
//ID.setValue(null);
//Name.setText(null);
//ImportID=null;
//ImportID=null;
System.out.println("Fertig!");
}
});
});
Now this menu leads to a dialog intended as an import dialog. What happens now is that the first time any user input data is used this data is propagated correctly. But if the user attempts make a input a second time the first and the second values are handed through - even with the disposing of the Dialog the data of the first go through shouldn't even be accessible, right?
I tried replacing the inner ActionListener with an e.getSource, which didn't work. Setting the variables or the Field to null doesn't help either.
I am aware that placing an ActionListener within an ActionListener is propably bad form.
Edit: I should explain how this works: The MenuItem (which sits inside the menubar of a proper GUI) is selected and calls forth a Dialog where the user enters two pieces of data and selects some files. Selected files are copied into a new directory and the entered data is processed into two text files. After that happened the Dialog is set to invisible and some different and to the data unrelated processing occurs. This processign being finished things are supposed to be wrapped up so that the dialog can be called upon again. If however I close the application this error does not occur.
I'm trying to make an interface for a login/register app and I have, in the email box (jTextField) an example as text (example#gmail.com) but when I run my program when I click that box to write my email on it, I have to delete my set text to write what I want.
What I thought to do was to create 2 jTextFields, the one behind not editable and the one forward where I'd put my text. So there are two things I don't know how to do:
put the forward jTextField invisible so we can see the behind
one
make the text on the behind jTextField disappear when I click the front one
Thanks for trying the help.
Can easily done with FocusGained and focuseLost events
private void txtEmailFocusGained(java.awt.event.FocusEvent evt) {
if (txtEmail.getText().equals("example#example.com")) {
txtEmail.setText(null);
}
}
private void txtEmailFocusLost(java.awt.event.FocusEvent evt) {
if ( txtEmail.getText().equals("")) {
txtEmail.setText("example#example.com");
}
}
Before I start, Hi. This is is my first question here. I am not good with Java so have been trying and improve that and here it goes.
I am trying to create an email client and server application using sockets in Java. However I have been running into a problem. I have created a jFrame which is basically the Welcome window. The code is too huge to post so I'll post the relevant portions. There is a preferences jDialog. When the OK button on the dialog, an action handler comes in to play. The code:
private void okActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
Welcome wel = new Welcome();
wel.setStatusBar("Pressed OK");
dispose();
}
Obviously, the setStatusBar() sets the text of the statusLabel. The code for setStatusBar():
public void setStatusBar(String s)
{
statusLabel.setText(s);
}
Also, the preferences dialog is opened through menu item with this code:
private void jMenuItem2ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
settings pref=new settings(null,true);
pref.show();
}
The problem is if I set the status label from any other class, for instance settings class, it does not reflect but if I do so from the Welcome class ( the class where the statusLabel is present), it works fine. This problem is not only limited to this setStatus() but virtually pops up whenever I try to use a method of a different class.
If you guys need more of the code, I could post it. I would be grateful if could help a Java beginner out.
Thanks.
private void okActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
Welcome wel = new Welcome();
wel.setStatusBar("Pressed OK");
dispose();
}
You're creating a new (hence the keyword new) object of type Welcome. This new object is different from the already existing object of type Welcome, that you have created earlier. It thus has its own label, and you're setting the text of this different label, which is not displayed anywhere in the screen.
Java objects work like regular object. Let's say you would like a cool logo on one of your blue t-shirts. You go to a T-shirt vendor and ask him to print a cool logo. The vendor doesn't have your blue t-shirt. If the vendor gets another red t-shirt from his shop and prints the logo on this red t-shirt, your blue t-shirt will still have no logo at all.
For the vendor to be able to print a logo on your blue t-shirt, you need to give him this blue t-shirt. Same in Java: you need to pass the existing Welcome object to the preferences dialog, and the actionPerformed method must set the label on this Welcome object. Not on a new Welcome object.
In the project I am currently working on I have several pieces of information that I would like to make visible via Jlabel. There are a few buttons and textfields elsewhere in the GUI that allow for altering said information I would like to update the JLabel but the text never changes, or updates upon startup.
I have attempted to use concurrency to update the labels, as suggested in other questions on this site, but I have had no luck with the labels updating. The concurrency does work with updating textfields and comboBoxes as needed.
The current iteration of my code looks as follows,
The JFrame
//// This is a snippet from the JFrame
public void start()
{
this.setSize(900, 700);
this.setVisible(true);
devicePanel.populateDeviceDefinitions();
updateServiceInfo();
updateCommandInfo();
startUpdateTimer();
}
public void updateServiceInfo()
{
EventService service = JetstreamApp.getService();
generalPanel.updateServiceInfo(service.getBaseUri(),
service.getAccessKey(), String.valueOf(service.getWindowTime()));
}
public void updateCommandInfo()
{
JetstreamServiceClient client = JetstreamApp.getClient();
generalPanel.updateCommandInfo(client.getBaseUri(), client.getAccessKey());
}
The JPanel named generalPanel
//// This is a snippet from the generalPanel
//// All of the variables in the following code are JLabels
public void updateServiceInfo(String baseUrl, String accessKey,
String windowTime)
{
serviceUrl.setText(baseUrl);
serviceAccessKey.setText(accessKey);
serviceWindowTime.setText(windowTime);
}
public void updateCommandInfo(String baseUrl, String accessKey)
{
commandUrl.setText(baseUrl);
commandAccessKey.setText(accessKey);
}
The labels start with an Empty string for their text and upon window start it is intended that they be updated by grabbing the information from the relevant sources. Can I please have some insight as to why the JLabels never update and display their information?
How did you create the JLabel? If the text starts out as "", and you've created it with new JLabel(""), the width of the JLabel may be initialized to 0 and then none of your text would show up when you update it. I believe I've had that sort of problem in the past. As a test, try using new JLabel("aaaaaaaaaa") or some longer string to create the label, then setText(""); then later, when you setText(somethingElse), see if that causes text to show up. If it does, then the width is probably the problem and you can work on it from there. – ajb 19 mins ago
This comment is the actual answer, when creating a JLabel with an empty string as the text the label's dimensions do not get set properly when using WindowBuilderPro. My labels did exist, and were being updated with the code provided in my question but the labels were not visible.
Starting with a label that has text in it, then setting the text to an empty string works properly.
The method paintImmediately() can be used to cause a Swing component to get updated immediately. after setText(), you should call paintImmediately() like below.
jLabel.setText("new text")
jLabel.paintImmediately(jLabel.getVisibleRect());
You should try to call revalidate() or repaint() on the component that contains your JLabels.
Cheers
I have been working with a Java applet which is an applet that helps to write using only a mouse. For my case, I am trying to incorporate this into my webiste project as follows:
When the user clicks on any input element (textbox/textarea) on the page, this JAVA applet loads on the webpage itself. In the screenshot of the JAVA applet seen below, the user points to an alphabet to and the corresponding text gets written in the text box of the applet.
Now what I am trying to do is to get this text from the TextBox of the applet to the input element on the webpage. I know that this needs an interaction between the Java and JavaScript, but not being a pro, I really do not have the catch. Here's the Java applet and the code I have written.
Java applet and jQuery code (298kB): http://bit.ly/jItN9m
Please could somebdoy help for extending this code.
Thanks a lot!
Update
I searched somewhere and found this -> To get the text inside of Java text box, a getter method in the Applet to retrieve the text:
public class MyApplet extends JApplet {
// ...
public String getTextBoxText() { return myTextBox.getText(); }
}
In the JQuery code, the following lines are to be added I think:
var textBoxText = $("#applet-id")[0].getTextBoxText();
//Now do something with the text
For the code of the applet, I saw a GNOME git page here. The getText call already exists -- look at the bottom of this file: http://git.gnome.org/browse/dasher/tree/java/dasher/applet/JDasherApplet.java
I'd need to call 'getCurrentEditBoxText' but when should this method 'getCurrentEditBoxText' be called?
In my case, I would probably have to do it when the user clicks in a new input control etc.
You can have full communication between your Applet and any javascript method on the page. Kyle has a good post demonstrating how the Javascript can call the applet and request the text value. However, I presume you want the HTML Textfield to update with each mouse click, meaning the applet needs to communicate with the page. I would modify your javascript to something like this:
var activeTextArea = null;
$('textarea, input').click(function() {
$(this).dasher();
activeTextArea = this;
});
function updateText(text) {
// Careful: I think textarea and input have different
// methods for setting the value. Check the
// jQuery documentation
$(activeTextArea).val(text);
}
Assuming you have the source for the applet, you can have it communicate with the above javascript function. Add this import:
import netscape.javascript.JSObject;
And then, in whatever onClick handler you have for the mouse clicks, add:
// After the Applet Text has been updated
JSObject win = null;
try {
win = (JSObject) JSObject.getWindow(Applet.this);
win.call("updateText", new Object[] { textBox.getText() });
} catch (Exception ex) {
// oops
}
That will update the text each time that chunk of code is called. If you do NOT have access to the applet source, things get trickier. You'd need to set some manner of javascript timeout that constantly reads the value from the applet, but this assumes the applet has such a method that returns the value of the textbox.
See Also: http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.3/docs/jsobject.html
Update Modifying the applet is your best shot since that is where any event would be triggered. For example, if you want the HTML TextField to change on every click, the click happens in the applet which would need to be modified to trigger the update, as described above. Without modifying the applet, I see two options. Option #1 uses a timer:
var timer;
var activeTextArea;
$('textarea, input').click(function() {
$(this).dasher();
activeTextArea = this;
updateText();
}
function updateText() {
// Same warnings about textarea vs. input
$(activeTextArea).val($('#appletId')[0].getCurrentEditBoxText());
timer = setTimeout("updateText()", 50);
}
function stopUpdating() {
clearTimeout(timer);
}
This is similar to the code above except clicking on a text area triggers the looping function updateText() which will set the value of the HTML text field to the value of the Applet text field every 50ms. This will potentially introduce a minor delay between click and update, but it'll be small. You can increase the timer frequency, but that will add a performance drain. I don't see where you've 'hidden' the applet, but that same function should call stopUpdating so that we are no longer trying to contact a hidden applet.
Option #2 (not coded)
I would be to try and capture the click in the Applet as it bubbles through the HTML Dom. Then, you could skip the timer and put a click() behavior on the Applet container to do the same update. I'm not sure if such events bubble, though, so not sure if this would work. Even if it did, I'm not sure how compatible it would be across browsers.
Option #3
Third option is to not update the HTML text field on every click. This would simply be a combination of Kyle's and my posts above to set the value of the text field whenever you 'finish' with the applet.
Here's a possible solution. To get the text inside of your Java text box, write a getter method in the Applet to retrieve the text:
public class MyApplet extends JApplet {
// ...
public String getTextBoxText() { return myTextBox.getText(); }
}
In your JQuery code, add the following lines:
var textBoxText = $("#applet-id")[0].getTextBoxText();
//Now do something with the text
I found most of what I posted above here. Hope this helps.
This page explains how to manipulate DOM from a Java applet. To find the input element, simply call the document.getElementById(id) function with id of an id attribute of the text input box.