The Entry Widget

General

Explain what an Entry does...

Properties

This is a list of all supported, Entry specific, properties, or standard properties that behave a certain way, which isn't default. (Entry overrides some properties so it can add his own logic) See the widget page for information about properties used for all widgets.

PropertysupportedBehaviour
required-background-color swing This color will only be set when the field is required and not disabled. If it is disabled it will set the disabled color
disabled-background-color swing This will always be set when the entry is disabled
default-background-color swing This color will be used as the default background and when the field is not disabled and not required
required-foreground-color swing This color will only be set when the field is required and not disabled. If it is disabled it will set the disabled color
disabled-foreground-color swing This will always be set when the entry is disabled
default-foreground-color swing This color will be used as the default foreground and when the field is not disabled and not required
enabled.depends swing This specifies that this field will be enabled based on the value of another field. The fieldvalue should be able to return to true or false (mostly used icm with checkboxes)
intialvalue swing The initial value to use.
intialvalue.type swing Type can be field or string
entryfields swing The entryfields property allows you to specify which value of a bean you wish to show to the user (eg if the entry contains an Person object and you want to show the value of getLastName, you specifiy lastname as the entryfield.