Adding JavaFX TextField to JPanel

Question

I have a JPanel cPanel, and a TextField resultField imported from JDK 8's javafx.scene.control.TextField. Now I want to cPanel.add(resultField,BorderLayout.NORTH), Eclipse give me an error:

The method add(String, Component) in the type Container is not applicable for the arguments (TextField, String)

How do I add resultField to cPanel properly?

JPanel is a swing component. It would make more sense to add a swing JTextField than the JavaFX TextField. — WillShackleford, Nov 14 '15 at 02:03
@willshackford thanks. That does make sense. I wanted to add prompt text to resultField, but JTextField doesn't support prompt text — Dylan Czenski, Nov 14 '15 at 02:08
Then , Its better to switch to javafx instead of using java swing. — Madushan Perera, Nov 14 '15 at 02:09
SwingLabs SwingX library has `Prompt` (and `Buddy`) support as demonstrated [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22396282/how-to-set-text-like-placeholder-in-jtextfield-in-swing/22396303#22396303) — MadProgrammer, Nov 14 '15 at 02:23

camickr · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-14T02:27:22.133

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but JTextField doesn't support prompt text

You can use the Text Prompt class.

I allows you to specify a prompt that is displayed when the text field is empty. As soon as you type text the prompt is removed.

The prompt is actually a JLabel so you can customize the font, forground etc..:

JTextField tf7 = new JTextField(10);
TextPrompt tp7 = new TextPrompt("First Name", tf7);
tp7.setForeground( Color.RED );

edited Nov 14 '15 at 02:27

answered Nov 14 '15 at 02:09

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Ok that's pretty good. I wonder why it is not a part of Swing. – Dylan Czenski Nov 14 '15 at 02:26
@DylanChen, well it was added to JavaFX, but Swing is no longer being developed. – camickr Nov 14 '15 at 02:28
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@DylanChen Prompt support is kind of a "newish" thing in UI's, Swing was designed by back before 2000, with only a few additions been added in the early years – MadProgrammer Nov 14 '15 at 02:28

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 14 '15 at 02:19

You can Download swingx-core-1.6.2.jar and use it to make swing Text Fields Prompt text.

    PromptSupport.setPrompt("User ID", userNameField);
    PromptSupport.setFontStyle(Font.BOLD, userNameField);
    PromptSupport.setForeground(Color.BLACK, userNameField);
    PromptSupport.setFocusBehavior(PromptSupport.FocusBehavior.HIDE_PROMPT,
            userNameField);

Download it from here :http://www.java2s.com/Code/JarDownload/swingx/swingx-core-1.6.2.jar.zip

It's now up to [1.6.4](https://java.net/downloads/swingx/releases/swingx-all-1.6.4.jar) — MadProgrammer, Nov 14 '15 at 02:27

Adding JavaFX TextField to JPanel

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