The default implementation of the Caret shows highlighting only when the
corresponding component has focus. If you want the highlighting effect on
an unfocused component your options are: 1) writing your own Caret; 2) fake
the highlighting by playing with the background/foreground colors.
Dmitry
At 10:16 AM 3/12/2001, Reynshteyn, Leonid wrote:
>Can someone suggest the simplest way to programmatically highlight text in
>JTextField?
>
>selectAll() highlights the text internally but does not display the text
>highlighted. I want it to appear as if it's been highlighted with a mouse.
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