jPasswordField

[rob]

Is there a good way to 'setText' in a jPasswordField? There is only a
getPassword method and the PasswordField seems to only take input from the
keyboard. I need it to accept input from button clicks. I am making a keyboard
on the screen to be clicked for a handheld PDA that has no keys.

can't use a plain jTextField because it has no EchoChar.

I think I cannot use Swing on a handheld anyway so maybe this is academic.
It does seem to be an oversight because Suns tutorial talks about both get
and set methods but only shows getPassword.

Thanks

[Kent]

Rob,

JPasswordField extends the JTextField class so you can just use setText(String)
as per the JTextField class. getPassword() is provided instead of getText()
for security reasons not relevant to plain text fields.

Regards,
Kent

"rob" <robert.s.cascella@lmco.com> wrote:
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>
>Is there a good way to 'setText' in a jPasswordField? There is only a
>getPassword method and the PasswordField seems to only take input from the
>keyboard. I need it to accept input from button clicks. I am making a keyboard
>on the screen to be clicked for a handheld PDA that has no keys.
>
>can't use a plain jTextField because it has no EchoChar.
>
>I think I cannot use Swing on a handheld anyway so maybe this is academic.
>It does seem to be an oversight because Suns tutorial talks about both get
>and set methods but only shows getPassword.
>
>Thanks

[Rob]

"rob" <robert.s.cascella@lmco.com> wrote:
>
>
>Is there a good way to 'setText' in a jPasswordField? There is only a
>getPassword method and the PasswordField seems to only take input from the
>keyboard. I need it to accept input from button clicks. I am making a keyboard
>on the screen to be clicked for a handheld PDA that has no keys.
>
>can't use a plain jTextField because it has no EchoChar.
>
>I think I cannot use Swing on a handheld anyway so maybe this is academic.
>It does seem to be an oversight because Suns tutorial talks about both get
>and set methods but only shows getPassword.
>
>Thanks