Adding JavaFX TextField to JPanel

Question

I have a JPanel cPanel , and a TextField resultField imported from JDK 8's javafx.scene.control.TextField . Now I want to cPanel.add(resultField,BorderLayout.NORTH) , Eclipse give me an error:

The method add(String, Component) in the type Container is not applicable for the arguments (TextField, String)

How do I add resultField to cPanel properly?

Answer 1

but JTextField doesn't support prompt text

You can use the Text Prompt class.

I allows you to specify a prompt that is displayed when the text field is empty. As soon as you type text the prompt is removed.

The prompt is actually a JLabel so you can customize the font, forground etc..:

JTextField tf7 = new JTextField(10);
TextPrompt tp7 = new TextPrompt("First Name", tf7);
tp7.setForeground( Color.RED );

Answer 2

You can Download swingx-core-1.6.2.jar and use it to make swing Text Fields Prompt text.

    PromptSupport.setPrompt("User ID", userNameField);
    PromptSupport.setFontStyle(Font.BOLD, userNameField);
    PromptSupport.setForeground(Color.BLACK, userNameField);
    PromptSupport.setFocusBehavior(PromptSupport.FocusBehavior.HIDE_PROMPT,
            userNameField);

Download it from here : http://www.java2s.com/Code/JarDownload/swingx/swingx-core-1.6.2.jar.zip