including an icon inside a text field.

[Arun Thulaseedharan]

hi all,
i want to include an icon inside a JTextField(at the extreme right)and when that icon is clicked a dialog box should appear.Can anyone suggest an approach for doing this??
thanks in advance.
arun

[Maneesh Godbole]

Originally posted by Arun Thulaseedharan:
hi all,
i want to include an icon inside a JTextField(at the extreme right)and when that icon is clicked a dialog box should appear.Can anyone suggest an approach for doing this??
thanks in advance.
arun

1) Override the JTextField#paintComponent to paint the Icon at your desired location.
2) Add a MouseListener to your JTextField.
3) On receiving mouse clicks, find out if the click happened on your icon.
4) If yes, process it accordingly.

[Michael Dunn]

create a component:
JPanel(BoxLayout) with JTextField and JLabel(icon).
modify borders so it looks like a single component.
add mouseListener to the label (to do whatever you want).

[Maneesh Godbole]

I agree we are splitting hair here, but then we end up with three components instead of one.