Java Development

[rantravee]

Hi,

I'm interested to know how could I set the height of a EditField  and have the text written at the middle of the editfield .

Thanks !

[simon_hain]

depends on what you really want to achieve.

you can use a custom layout manager to place your editfield into the middle of some empty space.

you can also set the height of an editfield by overwriting getPreferredHeight.

you cannot control where the text is written, this would require a custom field.

[patilajayr]

hello,

               here is code.

here is the code for you

class MyEditField extends EditField
{
    public MyEditField (long style)
    {
        super (style);
        setBorder (BorderFactory.createSimpleBorder(new XYEdges (1, 1, 1, 1)));
    }

    public int getPreferredHeight()
    {
        return Font.getDefault.getHeight() * 3; //setting the height of edit field as 3 rows
    }

    public void layout (int width, int height)
    {
        super.layout (width, height);
        if (getExtent().height < getPreferredHeight())
            setExtent (width, getPreferredHeight());
    }
}

thanks,

 ajay

 accept solution if it works.

[rantravee]

Indeed the height of the EditField is customizable in this way , but when I write in it the text goes at the top of the EditField and not at the middle as I would like

[Ekansh]

hi,

class EditFieldClass extends EditField
{
    int width,height;
   
    EditFieldClass(long style,int width,int height)
    {
        super(style);
        this.width = width;
        this.height = height;
    }
  
     protected void layout(int width, int height)
    {
        width = this.width;
        height = this.height; 
        super.layout(width, height);
        super.setExtent(width, height);
    }
   
    public void paint(Graphics graphics)
    {
        super.paint(graphics);
        graphics.clear();
        int labelWidth = getFont().getAdvance(getLabel());
        graphics.drawRect( labelWidth, 0, getWidth() - labelWidth,getHeight());
        graphics.drawText(this.getText() ,3 , 3);
    }
   
   
}

You can also set font for the editfield.

Regards

Ekansh

[rantravee]

Great idea to redraw the text yourself . Thanks !  However in the way I do it the text is cropped at half like this :

The code I use is the following

EditField text = new EditField("","",4,style)
{
    protected void paint(Graphics g)
    {
	super.paint(g);
	g.clear();
       
        int fieldHeight =  getHeight();
	int fontHeight = getFont().getHeight();
	g.drawText(this.getText() ,5 , (fieldHeight-fontHeight)/2);
    }

  public int getPreferredHeight()
  {
       return  (int) (getFont().getHeight() * 1.5); 
  }
	
  public void layout (int width, int height)
   {
       super.layout (width, height);
         if (getExtent().height < getPreferredHeight())
             super.setExtent (width, getPreferredHeight());
   }
};

[shaina123]

Using this code for customEditField i m also facing same issue . Text inside Field is not visible relevant to height

pls helpout me how to resolve

[hardikhamar]

Ur code:

int fieldHeight =  getHeight();

replace with:

     int fieldHeight = getFont().getHeight()+5;

[shaina123]

thankz it really help

[shaina123]

When editfield gets focus to input text then Cursor is not visible so its not clear either to start typing or not

pls help how to show cursor (Stright Vertical line blinking t)