Change cursor over text fields

Question

Does anyone know how to change the mouse cursor, to a karat cursor, when the mouse is "hovering" over a JTextField or JTextArea?

Answer 1

OK heres where I get lost...
If you run this program then move the mouse over the JTextField the JFrame will change the cursor to a TEXT_CURSOR but the JDialog will not.
Can anyone make this happen for a JDialog??
import java.awt.Cursor;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
public class JDialogMouseTest extends JPanel{
    JTextField textField;
    public JDialogMouseTest(){
        textField = new JTextField();
        textField.addMouseListener(new MouseListener(){
            public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
            public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
            public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
            public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {
                mouseEnteredEvent(e);
            public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {
        add(textField);
    private void mouseEnteredEvent(MouseEvent e){
        textField.setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.TEXT_CURSOR));
    public static void main(String[] args){
        JDialog dialog = new JDialog();
        JDialogMouseTest mouseTest = new JDialogMouseTest();
        dialog.setContentPane(mouseTest);
        dialog.pack();
        dialog.setVisible(true);
        JDialogMouseTest mouseTest1 = new JDialogMouseTest();
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setContentPane(mouseTest1);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
}Message was edited by:
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