Decorating a JTextField with an image and hint

Question

I\'m trying to create some nicer looking JTextFields with an image and a hint. To do this I made a decorator that overrides the paintComponent method. The reason I used a de

Answer 1

Text Prompt works with a JPasswordField.

One difference is that the displayed icon disappears when text is entered. If you want the icon to be permanent then I suggest you create a custom "IconBorder* class to paint an Icon rather then do custom painting in the paintComponent() method.

You approach will not work unless you duplicate the code for both JTextField and JPasswordField.

Edit:

Actually you don't need to create a custom IconBorder. The MatteBorder supports the painting of an Icon in a Border.