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Hide caret in Text widget [message #435101]

Fri, 23 April 2004 06:30

Eclipse User

Hi group !

I was wondering how to hide the caret in a text widget. I already tried
to get it with
text.getShell().getCaret();
but this one returns null. I already tried to create a caret:
Caret caret = new Caret(text, SWT.NONE);
caret.setVisible(false);

I problably missed something... Is there a simple way to do it ?

Thanks in advance

Thierry

Re: Hide caret in Text widget [message #435161 is a reply to message #435101]

Fri, 23 April 2004 11:01

Eclipse User

You can't. The caret is shown and hidden by the text widget based on
platform conventions.

"Thierry Monney" <titi-r5@bluewin.ch> wrote in message
news:c6aqtl$cnp$1@eclipse.org...
> Hi group !
>
> I was wondering how to hide the caret in a text widget. I already tried
> to get it with
> text.getShell().getCaret();
> but this one returns null. I already tried to create a caret:
> Caret caret = new Caret(text, SWT.NONE);
> caret.setVisible(false);
>
> I problably missed something... Is there a simple way to do it ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Thierry

Re: Hide caret in Text widget [message #1059198 is a reply to message #435161]

Fri, 17 May 2013 05:11

Eclipse User

I know this is a very old question, but perhaps it will still be useful to reply, as people are searching for answers all the time. I recently had the same problem and yes, you can disable the caret! At least you can, if you are happy changing your text widget to be StyledText. Then you simply do:
text.setCaret(null);
and all is well, as if by magic Smile

No need to get at shells no need to get the Caret object and the change affects only the specified field.
Hope it helps.
Wojtek
See also the article "Demos and Usage of org.eclipse.swt.custom.StyledText.setCaret(Caret caret)" at www.javadocexamples.com/org/eclipse/swt/custom/StyledText

Re: Hide caret in Text widget [message #1060717 is a reply to message #435101]

Tue, 28 May 2013 04:42

Eclipse User

Hi,

seems to be still a subject of discussion and I didn't found an acceptable solution for me.

I can't use StyledWidget for various reason so I searched for another way and here it is:
The caret is still visible only on Windows after setting a read-only on the Text. So I use a win32 fragment specific providing a FocusListener which is calling org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DestroyCaret() on focusGained.

Please note that I'm clearly not very happy with this solution so if someone else have another better solution, he is very welcome to provide it.

Regards,

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