Question

So I have a program that runs similar to MS-DOS did back in the day. Like MS-DOS I don’t want a mouse or caret in my window.

So far I’ve managed to hide the cursor and the caret by making them both invisible, however you can still move and select other things on the screen.

So I have two questions:

1. How do I completely remove the cursor or cancel any movement of the cursor?
2. How can I make the caret always stay in one JTextField?

Thanks in advance 🙂

Answer 1

Crazy idea to implement the behaviour but

1. You can try to imitate this creating fully transparent image and set
   it as cursor.
2. To let caret stay in just one JTextField just add just
   one JTextField:-). All the rest add as JLabels with borders.

Alternatively you can use JTextArea with black background and monospaced font.