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Using custom Caret in JTextField for accessibility

I'm programming a Swing Application and I have a friend that read much the Bible. This app have searches by text or passage.

But my friend only can see big font sizes and contrasted colors. I change the color of caret for the textField with setCaretColor, where the user input the text to search.

The caret show like a rectangle with the same hight of font, but the width is little and I think that my friend cans not see.

Is there any way for change the width of the caret for show more bigger?

Solution

  • Have you seen this example from the Oreilly Swing book that's floating all over the internet? It seems you can customize the caret a lot.

    http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Swing-JFC/Fanciercustomcaretclass.htm