Is there any way to display text without JLabel or JTextField in java swing?

Question

I'm creating Swing project, but I'm wondering if there's any way to print text without using JLabel or JTextField.

I found out text field could be the one but it isn't as tidy as JLabel. (there's a border around the text).

Can a border in the text field be removed? Or are there other methods I can use?

Have a look on this [How to style a text field so it doesnt have a border?][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2281937/swing-jtextfield-how-to-remove-the-border — junior developper, Dec 26 '13 at 14:52
I think you can override paint method and paint it on component.Background will be transparent and no border there i think thats what you are looking for — Tomas Bisciak, Dec 26 '13 at 14:53
1) `if there's any way to print text without using JLable or JtextField.` Take a look at all components that extends `JTextComponent` 2)`Can a border in the TextField be removed?` Yes — nachokk, Dec 26 '13 at 14:56

Andrew Thompson · Answer 1 · 2013-12-26T15:09:27.293

You seem to be looking for JComponent.setBorder(null). However there are a number of ways to achieve the effect you seem to want..

Opaque JLabel with a BG color.
A custom painted component..

Here is an example of the two standard components.

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import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

class TextFieldNoBorder {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Runnable r = new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                String s = "Text without borders..";
                JPanel gui = new JPanel(new GridLayout(0,1,5,5));

                JTextField tf = new JTextField(s, 20);
                tf.setBorder(null);

                gui.add(tf);

                JLabel l = new JLabel(s);
                l.setOpaque(true);
                l.setBackground(Color.YELLOW);
                gui.add(l);

                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, gui);
            }
        };
        // Swing GUIs should be created and updated on the EDT
        // http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(r);
    }
}

Paul Samsotha · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-26T15:44:49.907

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"I'm wondering if there's any way to print text without using JLable or JtextField"

You could always draw the text in a JPanel. Takes a lot more work, but you can do a lot more with your text.

public class TextPanel extends JPanel{
    protected void paintComponent(Graphics g){
        super.paintComponent(g);
        g.drawString("Hello, Stackoverflow!", xLocation, yLocation);
    }
}

See Drawing Text with Graphics

edited Dec 26 '13 at 15:44

answered Dec 26 '13 at 14:59

Paul Samsotha

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This is probably some kind of illness of 90% of Swing Programmers: When they make their own component, they always extend `JPanel` instead of `JComponent`. Why? – Martijn Courteaux Dec 26 '13 at 15:10
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Seems a lot of 'heavy lifting' for something that can be done in just a couple of lines of code using either a label or text field.. – Andrew Thompson Dec 26 '13 at 15:10
Well, OP didn't really describe what they were trying to do. I was simply answering the question in the above quote :) – Paul Samsotha Dec 26 '13 at 15:12
Well, I'm new to Swing so a friend of mine gave me a kinda mission to complete. I think he's trying to teach me how to 'Draw' a text instead of just 'print'. Thanks guys anyway :) – jcarlos Dec 26 '13 at 15:16

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 26 '13 at 15:00

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You can use this!

JTextField textField = new JTextField();
textField.setBorder(javax.swing.BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder());

This will set the empty border to your TextField

answered Dec 26 '13 at 15:00

Keerthivasan

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Is there any way to display text without JLabel or JTextField in java swing?

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