Clear TextField on button press - Java Applet

Question

I have a Java Applet for login form. It has 2 TextFields, username and password. I need to clear them on clicking Reset button. This is the code I have written.

  public class LoginForm extends Applet implements ActionListener
  {
    TextField name, pass, hidden;
    Button b1, b2;

    public void init()
    {
        name = new TextField(20);
        pass = new TextField(20);

        b2 = new Button("Reset");

        add(name);
        add(pass);
        add(b2);

        b2.addActionListener(this);
    }

    public void paint(Graphics g)
    {
        g.drawString("Hello", 10, 150);
    }

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        System.out.println(e);

        name.setText("");
        pass.setText("");

        repaint();
    }
  }

But this is not working properly.

Once I click the Reset button, the actionPerformed() method gets called and it also calls repaint(). (I can see "Hello" being displayed).

But the TextFields do not get cleared.

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If I make following changes in actionPerformed

        name.setText(" ");  // please note the spaces
        pass.setText(" ");

then it works. But I don't want spaces there. I want the TextFields to get blank.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Probably it is not good solution, but this is a workaround.Before setting the text invoke getText method and it will reset. Pretty strange! This behaviour is marked as Bug on this page

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    System.out.println(e);
    name.getText();
    pass.getText();

    name.setText("");
    pass.setText("");

    repaint();
    revalidate();
}

Another solution would be setting text with space. But not if you have password-like fields which have setEchoChar('*').

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    System.out.println(e);

    name.setText(" ");
    pass.setText(" ");

    repaint();
    revalidate();
}