How to select text in a Custom JSpinner

[RajivR Singh]

Hi,
i have a Custom Jspinner in a dialog box which i uses to show some string. i wanted to select this text when ever dialog box is called.
i am using foloowing code for the same but its not working.

 
JFormattedTextField ft = ((JSpinner.DefaultEditor) spinnerEntry.getEditor()).getTextField();
 ((DefaultFormatter) ft.getFormatter()).selectAll();

[Michael Dunn]

> i am using foloowing code for the same but its not working.

"but its not working. " implies that it compiles and runs OK, but doesn't achieve the desired result.

I couldn't get your version to compile (please show us how you did it),
but my version of a 'compiled OK' selectAll() works fine.

so, get yours to compile and run, and it should work for you as well.

[Rob Spoor]

How about ft.selectAll(), without using the Formatter?

[Maneesh Godbole]

JFormattedTextField inherits the selectAll method from JTextComponent

[RajivR Singh]

Thanks for Reply guys.

but i still finds same problem. mean while i noticed that my text field is getting selected and then selection is getting lost. this i noticed by giving some delay.
also i notice that there is a bug filed with Sun in 1.4 version related to this.

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4699955

i am using 1.5 version.

[Michael Dunn]

> mean while i noticed that my text field is getting selected and then selection is getting lost.

try using a timer
note: if the dialog is modal, you need this code prior to dialog.setVisible(true);

    
final JTextField tf = ((JSpinner.DefaultEditor)spinner.getEditor()).getTextField();
ActionListener al = new ActionListener(){
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){
    tf.requestFocusInWindow();
    tf.selectAll();
  }
};
int delay = 100;//modify to suit
javax.swing.Timer timer = new javax.swing.Timer(delay,al);
timer.setRepeats(false);
timer.start();
dialog.setVisible(true);//prior to this line

[RajivR Singh]

Yes. with timer its working.