#Making text-fields not user-editable

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edgy gulch
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Have some text-fields, but I can enter text in them. They should only be there to display calculations. How would I make it so I can't edit the text-fields.

proud sundialBOT
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<@&987246399047479336> please have a look, thanks.

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edgy gulch
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the text fields code:

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double subTotal = (bagelsQuantity * bagelsPrice) + (cookiesQuantity * cookiesPrice)+ (muffinsQuantity * muffinsPrice) + (pieQuantity * piePrice);
textfieldSubtotal.setText(String.format("%.2f", subTotal)); // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6350797/how-to-set-new-text-in-jtextfield-after-creation

final double taxRate = 0.13;
double taxAmount = subTotal * taxRate;
textfieldTax.setText(String.format("%.2f", taxAmount)); // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34461275/how-to-set-text-format#:~:text=You%20should%20use%20the%20String.format%20%28%29%20method%20along,results%20that%20you%20want%3A%20high.setText%20%28String.format%20%28%22%2506d%22%2C%20gamescore%29%29%3B

double Gtotal = subTotal + taxAmount;
textfieldTotal.setText(String.format("%.2f", Gtotal));
textfieldTotal.setEditable(false);
Stack Overflow
how to set new text in JTextField after creation?

I have a jTextField , and I set it's value to a certain sum when I create the frame.
Here is the initiation code:

totalTextField.setText(
itemsPriceTextField.getText() +
...

Stack Overflow
How to set Text Format?

A normal scoreboard text is like this
so i want to make te text format like this
this is the code

score = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.ct);
score.setText(String.valueOf(gamescore));

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Not sure how I would make it unedible

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uneditable*

winter shore
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Just call setEnabled() on it:

        searchField = new JTextField();
        searchField.setText("whatever");
        searchField.setEnabled(false);
proud sundialBOT
winter shore
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note that you might need to adjust colors to have black text instead of gray

dapper python
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Might aswell just use a label 😉

winter shore
dapper python
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looks don't really matter, stylesheet will override that

winter shore
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what stylesheet? JTextField is Swing iirc

winter shore
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You don't. The HTML parser that some Swing components use does not even support most HTML tags; it does not support CSS at all.

If you need advanced HTML support in a Java app, you will have to use one of the third-party components that provide it.

dapper python
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yeah , scroll down :p

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looks are personal aswell. If its just for displaying some text that the user has no need to interact with, a label suffices

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textbox screams, click me

winter shore
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Welll, I don't know about the use case of OP, but from what I saw you'll need to override UI LaF often enough anyways if you want custom behaviour - using CSS seems counterproductive to me

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And labels on their own look kinda clunky, compare:

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edgy gulch
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I got it work so that if they click any button, they can no longer click on the textfield

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But they can click on the text field before clicking any other button so it kinda worked and kinda didnt