View all contents of disabled GTextField in G4P

bbcannon

View all contents of disabled GTextField in G4P

in Contributed Library Questions • 1 year ago

Hello (quarks),

I have a text field where I would like to show text that should not be edited. Works fine, except when the text doesn't fit inside the width of the text field. No scrolling is possible, unless I enable the GTextField.

GTextField displayGroupTF = new GTextField(this, "Uneditable ............................. text", 10, 10, 20, 20, false);
displayGroupTF.setEnabled(false);

I'm using a newer version of G4P, 2.0.1, with Processing version 1.5.1.

Sorry if I overlooked an existing way to accomplish this. I could create a callback that resets the text for any CHANGED event, I guess.

Thanks!

bbc

Replies(2)

quarks

Re: View all contents of disabled GTextField in G4P

1 year ago

Scrolling is automatic to ensure the flashing cursor (insertion point) is visible. The cursor is only visible if the GTextField is enabled.

This means that it is not possible to scroll the text when the GTextField is disabled. This is fairly standard behaviour for this type of component. If it is important that all the text is viewable you might consider making the GTextField wider or the font used smaller depending on the amount of text.