Java: JTextField Background Image
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This snippet will create a JTextBox and draw an image on the right hand side. It also sets the margin accordingly to prevent the user typing into that area.
JTextField myTextField = new JTextField(20) { @Override protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) { super.paintComponent(g); try { URL url = this.getClass().getResource("image.png"); final java.awt.image.BufferedImage image = javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(url); Border border = UIManager.getBorder("TextField.border"); JTextField defaultField = new JTextField(); final int x = getWidth() - border.getBorderInsets(defaultField).right - image.getWidth(); setMargin(new Insets(2, 2, 2, getWidth() - x)); int y = (getHeight() - image.getHeight())/2; g.drawImage(image, x, y, this); } catch(Exception ignore) {} } };
Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for.
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