JTextField : How to set text on the left of JTextField when text too long

Question

I have a long String that I want to display in a JTextField. If the String is too long, it is showing the right-portion of the String, rather than the left portion, even when I use setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.LEFT)

For example, if my String is "JTextField example , this text is too long", it should show as...

|----------------------|
| JTextField example ..|
|----------------------|

but instead it shows as...

|----------------------|
| this text is too long|
|----------------------|

Could someone please suggest how this can be fixed.

You can use `setCaretPosition(0)` to set the position to the left side of the `JTextField` but in order to be able to scroll you are going to have to add the `JTextField` to a `JScrollPane` — twain249, Apr 25 '12 at 04:14
@twain249 : Why not put that, as an answer ? Too good, will work as expected :-) — nIcE cOw, Apr 25 '12 at 04:21
@twain249: Even without a `JScrollPane`, `JTextField` can scroll using the left and right arrow keys; `setScrollOffset()` looks promising, too. — trashgod, Apr 25 '12 at 04:40

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 25 '12 at 04:50

the horizontalAlignement works fine when the size of the field is bigger than the number of chars of the string, but if it is smaller it only does the LEFT_ALIGNMENT with the setText of its creation, not with any later setText.

You could force the position of the caret to the begining of the text using:

myTextField.setCaretPosition(0);

JTextField : How to set text on the left of JTextField when text too long

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