removing mouse selection support from JFormattedTextField

Hi.

First a little background info:

I have created a class DateField that extends JFormattedTextField. This class will eventually act as the Editor component in an editable JComboBox.

Upon creation of an instance, a pattern should be passed as a String argument to the constructor. E.g. 搚yyy-MM-dd? This pattern is presented as default to the user using super.setText(pattern); The caret color is set to the same as the background, hence it will become invisible. The first char in the pattern is selected using setSelectionStart(0) and setSelectionEnd(1), se screenshot, http://www.jorgenpersson.se/DateField_1.jpg.

The arrow keys can be used to move the selection right or left. When the user types a check is made to see if it is a valid char. In this case only a digit is valid. If delete or back space is pressed the selected char is replaced by the char at the equivalent position in the pattern string. So far all good.

Now, here抯 my problem:

Using the mouse you can select a range of characters. I want to disable this functionality.

I figured the start of the selection has to be triggered by MouseEvent. I therefore added a MouseListener and consumed the MouseEvent in the mousePressed method, but without success. I then, for testing purposes, tried to remove all existing MouseListener抯 from the parent. This didn抰 help either. The solution I have now is not something I like. In mouseReleased(? I simply select the character at the position of the caret.

Can anybody guide me to where I can turn mouse selection of. Which class is responsible?

[1613 byte] By [STTPokera] at [2007-11-26 22:18:36]