Thread: Netbeans Swing Design

im designing a swing app in netbeans.
i have a table which connects (using mysql) to a db and populates it.
i added text fields at the side so the user can add new fields to the database.
when i run the app the program wont let me type in the text field.
even if the properties - set enable = true.

i also created a button and set the action event to set the text field to true but that didnt work either.

is there a settin in netbeans which disables enter text into a text field, formatted text field or text area because none of these work.

Thanks for any help
kurt

If you want help, you'll have to provide an SSCCE that demonstrates the problem.

Please do not double post your question to the forums. Your other post has been removed. Follow KevinWorkman's advice of posting some short compilable code that demonstrates the problem, without which one doesn't even know where to start to guess.

i can post code but the thing is that im using netbeans SE swing builder so all the code is auto generated.
i set the textfield to editable but I can type in the box

when i created a button I:-
-created the button using the swing builder
-double clicked so it creates its own action event
-code =

jTextField1.setEditable(true);

thanks
Kurt


ps sorry i realise i put my post in the wrong thread. Il be more careful next time

If you can't boil the problem down to an SSCCE (which is just as much for your sake as it is for ours), then we really can't help you. We'll just be guessing.

I'd suggest you ditch the GUI builder until you're more comfortable with GUI programming (at which point you probably won't want to go back to the builder anyway).

i created a test project and did the basic hello world with a label text field and button and it work.

i then created a new project and copied everything from one to the other and it works!
dont knw why it wasn't working in my other project.

just thought id let you know

Thanks
Kurt

Originally Posted by kurt-hardy

i created a test project and did the basic hello world with a label text field and button and it work.

i then created a new project and copied everything from one to the other and it works!
dont knw why it wasn't working in my other project.

just thought id let you know

Thanks
Kurt

That's part of why we ask for an SSCCE. Now you can use the working test project and add a little bit from your broken project at a time. When the working project breaks, you know what caused it and can ask a more specific question.

Right i tried what you said. importing and/or copying and pasting everything in a bit at a time
and it stil works even though i didnt change anything.

is there a way i could of accidently set typing or keyboard response to null on the full project?
its working but still would like to know why.

Thanks
Kurt