RFR: 4512626: Non-editable JTextArea provides no visual indication of keyboard focus

Wed Dec 7 10:54:12 UTC 2022

On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 12:01:13 GMT, Alexander Zuev <kizune at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The library does not provide an ability to set caret to visible permanently in case of text component being non-editable. Every time focus will change the caret will change too. One would have to implement a custom caret that overrides this logic.

If that is not possible I suggest providing that functionality so applications will be able to use that. Probably even provide some predefined cursors, like "faded"/"blurred"/nonblinked/etc. That could be configured per L&F as well.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11408