JTextPane avoid blinking

Question

I have a JTextArea and I want to disable blinking from it. I have tried to set focusable to false, but it doesn't seem to work. I also set editable to false and it doesn't work either. Any idea?

Answer 1

Update

getCaret().setVisible()doesn't seem to have any effect, at least with the Metal and Windows 7 L&Fs.

Here's two suggestions that might be enough for you, depending on what your final requirements:

1. Set the caret color to the same color as the JTextField background, effectively making it invisible.

   myJTextField.setCaretColor(myJTextField.getBackground());

   If you want to show the caret at a later time (say when the field gets focus), you could switch back to the original color (the documentation says passing a null will do that) when your JTextField gets focus.

2. Set the blink rate to 0 so even though the cursor will be visible, it won't be blinking.

   myJTextField.getCaret().setBlinkRate(0);

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It seems like you want to hide the caret (the | cursor that indicates the current text insert position).

You can use JTextField.getCaret().setVisible(false);