orig synopsis:
  "Error handling mouse highlighting in TextField after setEchoChar() called."

Name: diC59631 Date: 09/12/97


In a TextField which is displaying the text
entered, the user can highlight text with the
mouse or cursors and then either press delete to
erase the text or just type, which will overwrite
the selected text.

If setEchoChar has been called on the TextField,
although highlight-delete still works, highlight-
overtype does not.

Example source:

------ begin EchoCharBug.java ------
import java.awt.*;
 
public class EchoCharBug extends Frame
{
        private TextField tf;
 
        public EchoCharBug ()
        {
                tf = new TextField (30);
                tf.setEchoChar ('*');
                add (tf);
                pack ();
        }
 
        public static void main (String args[])
        {
                EchoCharBug app = new EchoCharBug ();
                app.show ();
        }
 
}
------- end EchoCharBug.java -------

Running under SOlaris 2.5.1 / OpenWindows 3.5.1


Dave Richerby.
company - Micromuse , email - ###@###.###
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