How to select all text in a JFormattedTextField when it gets focus?

Question

I have a small Java desktop app that uses Swing. There is a data entry dialog with some input fields of different types (JTextField, JComboBox, JSpinner, JFormattedTextField

Answer 1

In addition to the above, if you want this for all text fields you can just do:

KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager()
    .addPropertyChangeListener("permanentFocusOwner", new PropertyChangeListener()
{
    public void propertyChange(final PropertyChangeEvent e)
    {
        if (e.getNewValue() instanceof JTextField)
        {
            SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable()
            {
                public void run()
                {
                    JTextField textField = (JTextField)e.getNewValue();
                    textField.selectAll();
                }
            });

        }
    }
});