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Dialog - enable false - if jtext field is NULL

I am creating a dialog with 4 jtext fields as well as 4 buttons. I will attach the method creating this.

My first jtext field is called Current Project. If current Project is null, I need to gray out the rest of the jtext fields and disable all the buttons except the change button next to current project. When the change button is pushed I want to call a class named ProjectDialog.

private JPanel currentItems(){
	
      JLabel eLabel = new JLabel("Current Project");
	  JLabel threeLabel = new JLabel("3D Translators");
	  JLabel twoLabel = new JLabel("2D Translators");
	  JLabel emailLabel = new JLabel("Emails");
	  final JTextField curProject = new JTextField(20);
	  final JTextField cur3dTrans = new JTextField(20);
	  final JTextField cur2dTrans = new JTextField(20);
	  final JTextField curEmails = new JTextField(20);
	
	  final JButton projectButton = new JButton("Change");
     //projectButton.setBackground(Color.red);
     //projectButton.setForeground(Color.red); 
      projectButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 20));
      projectButton.setEnabled(true);
      projectButton.addActionListener(
      new ActionListener() {
         public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent event )
         {
        	dispose();   
         }           
      });
      final JButton threeDButton = new JButton("Change");
      //projectButton.setBackground(Color.red);
      //projectButton.setForeground(Color.red); 
      threeDButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 20));
      threeDButton.setEnabled(true);
      threeDButton.addActionListener(
      new ActionListener() {
         public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent event )
         {
        	dispose();   
         }           
      });
      final JButton twoDButton = new JButton("Change");
      //projectButton.setBackground(Color.red);
      //projectButton.setForeground(Color.red); 
      twoDButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 20));
      twoDButton.setEnabled(true);
      twoDButton.addActionListener(
      new ActionListener() {
         public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent event )
         {
         	dispose();   
         }           
      });
      final JButton emailButton = new JButton("Change");
      //projectButton.setBackground(Color.red);
      //projectButton.setForeground(Color.red); 
      emailButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 20));
      emailButton.setEnabled(true);
      emailButton.addActionListener(
      new ActionListener() {
         public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent event )
        {
        	dispose();   
        }           
      });
		
	 JPanel p = new JPanel();
     p.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.green));
     GridBagLayout gridbag = new GridBagLayout();
     p.setLayout(gridbag);
    
     gbc.insets = new Insets(5,10,10,5);      
     set_gbc(0, 0, 1, 1,GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL );
     gridbag.setConstraints(eLabel, gbc);
     p.add(eLabel);
    
     set_gbc(1, 0, 1, 1,GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL );
     gridbag.setConstraints(threeLabel, gbc);
     p.add(threeLabel);
    
     set_gbc(2, 0, 1, 1,GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL );
     gridbag.setConstraints(twoLabel, gbc);
     p.add(twoLabel);
    
     set_gbc(3, 0, 1, 1,GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL );
     gridbag.setConstraints(emailLabel, gbc);
     p.add(emailLabel);
    
     set_gbc(0, 1, 1, 1,GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL);
     gridbag.setConstraints(curProject, gbc);
     p.add(curProject);
    
     set_gbc(1, 1, 1, 1,GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL);
     gridbag.setConstraints(cur3dTrans, gbc);
     p.add(cur3dTrans);
    
     set_gbc(2, 1, 1, 1,GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL);
     gridbag.setConstraints(cur2dTrans, gbc);
     p.add(cur2dTrans);
    
     set_gbc(3, 1, 1, 1,GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL);
     gridbag.setConstraints(curEmails, gbc);
     p.add(curEmails);
    
     set_gbc(0, 2, 1, 1, GridBagConstraints.BOTH);
     gridbag.setConstraints(projectButton, gbc);
     p.add(projectButton);
    
     set_gbc(1, 2, 1, 1, GridBagConstraints.BOTH);
     gridbag.setConstraints(threeDButton, gbc);
     p.add(threeDButton);
    
     set_gbc(2, 2, 1, 1, GridBagConstraints.BOTH);
     gridbag.setConstraints(twoDButton, gbc);
     p.add(twoDButton);
    
     set_gbc(3, 2, 1, 1, GridBagConstraints.BOTH);
     gridbag.setConstraints(emailButton, gbc);
     p.add(emailButton);
     return p;
   }// currentItems()

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for_yan

So what is your question?

Do you see some error?

Please, post the whole class, so that it could be compiled and run.

for_yan

jTextField shoud not be null
It may have empty text, but it is not null,
once you created it
You still can call jTextField.getText()

jkteater

ASKER

jTextField right now is just a input field. But once I get all the code written for the project - it will be a populated field. When the user creates the dialog all the fields will be populated. I don't have the backend code written to go get the data and put it in the fields. So while I wait for that code to get completed, I want to go ahead and get the logic of graying out the buttons and fields and create my next dialog class.

jkteater

ASKER

public void createDialog() {
	  Component currentPanel = currentItems();
   	  centerPanel = new JPanel();
      centerPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(centerPanel, BoxLayout.PAGE_AXIS));
      centerPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(750, 350));
            
      centerPanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(5, 0)));
      centerPanel.add(currentPanel);
      centerPanel.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
      centerPanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(0, 2)));
      
      
      getContentPane().add(centerPanel);
      
      addComponentListener(new ComponentAdapter() {
        public void componentResized(ComponentEvent event) {
           Component c = event.getComponent();
           c.setSize(Math.max((int)centerPanel.getPreferredSize().getWidth()/2, c.getWidth()),
                     Math.max((int)centerPanel.getPreferredSize().getHeight()/2, c.getHeight()));
        }
      });
  	  	
      this.pack();
      setLocation(getParent().getLocation(null));        
              
      //Display the window.
      centerPanel.setVisible(true);
        
   }// end createDialog()

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for_yan

There is not much about disabling the buttons and etxtfileds
You just use method setEnabled(true) or setEnabled(false);

It has been my experience with the button though, that
i needed to remove the listeners if I want the buttons
stop responding to clicks.
setEnabled(false) affect the appearance - still it responds to the events

And openeing the dDialog - weel you may write you custom class extend JDialog
and in the cnostructor make sure iit craetes all elements
and then calls setVisible(true)

Then form calling class you just ccall the constructor - ad you dialog will pop-up.
I think you did already a lot of such stuff

for_yan

So I do such things if I want to disable the button:

Submit.removeMouseListener(this);
Submit.setEnabled(false);

For JTextfiled you proabbly
want to use
setEditable(false);

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jkteater

ASKER

How would put the logic around the code? Should I write another method that has all the needed changes to the fields and buttons. Place a if statement at the start of currentItems()

If curProject is null {
disableProject();
}

for_yan

In the constructor you set them up disabled as your cyrretnt project is probably initially null
Then when some even happanes when a user sets the project to be not null - at that momemt
you call setenabled(true) on all neecssary elements
Keep these elements as instance varaibles, so you can access them from any method, event handler, etc.

jkteater

ASKER

I am going to start a new question on a different question I have now. Then get back to this one

jkteater

ASKER

off for the weekend - be back Monday

for_yan

Good luck. Have agood weekend.