how to hide the insert caret in a JTextField?

Question

I'm making a calculator program with Java using Java's Swing toolkit, and I want it to be similar to Windows' (default) calculator.

I have a JTextField for entering the numbers. You can see the cursor being displayed. I want to hide it.

I tried doing this:

textField.getCaret().setVisible(false);

but it didn't help. I also tried invoking it before and after I created and initialized the window but it still didn't work. The cursor was there.

I looked up the JTextField and Caret documentation but didn't find anything that could be useful for me, other than the setVisible() method which didn't work.

How can I hide the insert caret/cursor?

Answer 1

you could just make it invisible, you can try

textField.setCaretColor(Color.WHITE);