Focus rectangle

Can someone tell me how to make a focus rectangle visible
without tabbing. i.e. via code something like that below:
I know its possible because I've done it before and can't
remember how I did it.
Thanks in advance.

I read through my post and thought it wasn't very clear what
I was asking. Basically I've created code before that would show a
focus rectangle if a user clicked in that field with the mouse. Now
I'm trying to do that again and can't remember how I did it.

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I searched the bug database but was unable to find any matches...
I have received a bug report from our users relating to mistakenly thinking a button has focus. In the XP LAF, when a button is a 'default' button, it has a blue rectancle drawn around it (which is correct). When you tab to that button however, there is no additional 'focus' rectangle to indicate that the button has focus. I tested this in native XP components and an additional rectancle IS drawn when the button gets focus (in addition to the blue rectangle). Shouldn't there be some sort of focus indicator in addition to the blue rectangle? I'm using JRE version 1.4.2_02.
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Hello Andy!
If the behavior of Win XP LAF is different from the native this is definitely a bug. It would be greate if you file a bug here
http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport.
Thank you.
Anton

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I'm trying to change my theme/look & feel to show a focus rectangle for JTextField, somewhat like this: [http://www.macvswindows.com/index.php?title=GUI_Customization|http://www.macvswindows.com/index.php?title=GUI_Customization] (second image down, or direct [http://www.macvswindows.com/images/thumb/f/f2/osx_aqua_colors.png/500px-osx_aqua_colors.png|http://www.macvswindows.com/images/thumb/f/f2/osx_aqua_colors.png/500px-osx_aqua_colors.png] ) I don't want to make it exactly like MacOS, but a similar idea.
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So it seems I'm headed down the wrong path, what should I be doing? Extending DefaultHighlighter or DefaultCaret, or something else?
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import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.metal.DefaultMetalTheme;
import javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel;
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        try {
            MetalLookAndFeel.setCurrentTheme(new TestMetalTheme());
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        } catch (Exception e) {
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        panel.add(new JTextField("test"));
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import javax.swing.plaf.ComponentUI;
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import java.awt.*;
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Why not just combine the two approaches?
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.FocusEvent;
import java.awt.event.FocusListener;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.BevelBorder;
import javax.swing.border.Border;
import javax.swing.plaf.ComponentUI;
import javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalTextFieldUI;
public class CustomTextFieldUI extends MetalTextFieldUI {
     private Color focusColor = Color.cyan;
     private JComponent component;
     private Border normalBorder;
     private Border focusedBorder;
     private FocusListener focusListener;
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          if ( c == null ) {
               throw new IllegalArgumentException( "component must be specified" );
          this.component = c;
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               public void focusGained( FocusEvent fe ) {
                    if ( normalBorder == null ) {
                         normalBorder = component.getBorder();
                         focusedBorder = new BevelBorder( BevelBorder.LOWERED ) {
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                              public Color getHighlightInnerColor() { return focusColor; }
                              @Override
                              public Color getHighlightOuterColor() { return focusColor; }
                              @Override
                              public Color getShadowInnerColor() { return focusColor; }
                              @Override
                              public Color getShadowOuterColor() { return focusColor; }
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               public void focusLost( FocusEvent fe ) {
                    component.setBorder( normalBorder );
     public static ComponentUI createUI( JComponent c ) {
          return new CustomTextFieldUI ( c );
     @Override
     protected void installListeners() {
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     protected void uninstallListeners() {
          super.uninstallListeners();
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Hi all,
I have a JCheckBox with no label text with it. Usually when the JCheckBox has focus, theres a dotted focus rectangle around the label text, so in this case there never is.
Since theres a few checkboxes in the same panel, it gets very confusing as you can't see what component is in focus. Is there any way about this? I was trying to create my own checkbox with a dotted border when the component gets focus, but theres no dotted border in swing.
So my question is this:
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or
2) Is there any dotted border in swing that I've missed?
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what about having blank spaces as the text (the # of spaces determines the rectangle width)
something like this
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import javax.swing.*;
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A single click selects a cell, but I need to double click to see the focus triangle.
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Actually I was't thinking clearly when you asked about a "focus rectangle (which is why I always recommend a simple demo program that shows your problem). I thought you where asking about the "dotted line focus rectangle" that appears on components like JButton.
Anyway here is a simple table and not that the "focus rectangle" appears on all cells except the column with boolean values.
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import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
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}The default renderer for boolean values uses a JCheckBox to render the value. the check box uses setBorderPainted(false), which is why "focus rectangle" is not painted. Personally, I think this is a bug.
Anyway, if you want the "focus rectangle" then you would need to create your own Boolean renderer, setBorderPainted(true) and provide a default EmptyBorder for the check box:
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Can anyone help with an issue I am having with a cropped focus rectangle?
The video player is cropping the focus rectangle on the bottom and left of the component. One of my components is audio-only, and that is being cropped at the top too. Images attached.
Maybe I could rectify this by setting the focus rectangle direction inwards, instead of outwards? How would I do that just for this particular component (I definitely wouldn't wan't to change the focus rectangle globally)
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Should I register this as a bug? If so, where should I do that?

This looks like a bug. You can file bug reports here: http://bugs.adobe.com/flex/
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I am working on a GUI. putting some icon buttons (JButton). The problem is I am having buttons quite bigger than my icon picture size (having border arround it) with a rectangle on the button. How can I get ride of that rectangle? How can I make the size of the button exactly equal to the size of icon? And how can I make the look and feel of JButton as the old pressable Button (AWT) style? Appreciate you help and time.

Okay, there are a few ways of doing each thing that you are talking about here. For example, to make the button look like the old AWT buttons, you can simple make the border a raisedBevel border.
To make the button be the same size as the image, set the insets of the button to
new Insets(0,0,0,0);The final part of stopping it drawing the focus, is to use the method
setFocusPainted(false);This is the easy solution. A more powerful solution, but more difficult, is to override the ButtonUI and draw the button exactly as you want. It may be worth looking how the MetalButtonUI works if you do want to take this route.
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The code works fine as long as the list cell doesn't have the focus. When it does, it draws a border rectangle to indicate focus, but if the listbox needs to scroll horizontally to display all the text, part of the text gets cut off (i.e. "sometex..." where "sometext" should be displayed).
The ListCellRenderer creates a Gridlayout to lay out the 3 labels in the cell's JPanel.
What can I do to remedy this situation? I'm not sure what I'd need to do in terms of setting the size of the panel so that all the text gets displayed OK within the listbox. Or if there's something else I can do to fix this. The code and a main() to run the code are provided below. To reproduce the problem, click the Add Left and Add Right buttons to add a "mapping" -- when it doesn't have focus, everything displays fine, but when you give it focus, note the text on the right label gets cut off.
//======================================================================
// Begin Source Listing
//======================================================================
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Vector;
import java.util.Enumeration;
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private JList m_list;
private JScrollPane m_Pane;
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     while (it.hasNext())
     model.addElement(it.next());
     m_list = new JList(model);
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          m_list.setCellRenderer(renderer);
          setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          m_list.setVisibleRowCount(4);
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          add(m_Pane, BorderLayout.NORTH);
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          frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
          public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {System.exit(0);}
final DataMappings dm = new DataMappings();
final TwoColumnListbox lb = new TwoColumnListbox(dm.getMappings());
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          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
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          model.addElement(map);
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          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
          map.setDestination("/getQuote/symbol[]");
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          lb.getList().setModel(model);
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rightRemoveBtn.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
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          model.addElement(map);
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          leftPanel.add(leftAddBtn, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          leftPanel.add(leftRemoveBtn, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
JPanel rightPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
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          rightPanel.add(rightRemoveBtn, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
frame.getContentPane().add(leftPanel, BorderLayout.WEST);
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frame.getContentPane().add(rightPanel, BorderLayout.EAST);
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     class ListBoxRenderer extends JPanel implements ListCellRenderer
          private JLabel left;
          private JLabel arrow;
          private JLabel right;
          private Color clrForeground = UIManager.getColor("List.foreground");
private Color clrBackground = UIManager.getColor("List.background");
private Color clrSelectionForeground = UIManager.getColor("List.selectionForeground");
private Color clrSelectionBackground = UIManager.getColor("List.selection.Background");
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               setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 2, 10, 0));
               //setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(4, 4, 4, 4));
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               left.setForeground(clrForeground);
               arrow = new JLabel("");
               arrow.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
               arrow.setForeground(clrForeground);
               right = new JLabel("");
               right.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.RIGHT);
               right.setForeground(clrForeground);
               add(left);
               add(arrow);
               add(right);
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                    int index, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus)
               if (isSelected)
                    setBackground(list.getSelectionBackground());
                    setForeground(list.getSelectionForeground());
                    left.setForeground(clrSelectionForeground);
                    arrow.setForeground(clrSelectionForeground);
                    right.setForeground(clrSelectionForeground);
               else
                    setBackground(list.getBackground());
                    setForeground(list.getForeground());
               left.setForeground(clrForeground);
                    arrow.setForeground(clrForeground);
                    right.setForeground(clrForeground);
               // draw focus rectangle if control has focus. Problem with focus
// and cut off text!!
               if (cellHasFocus)
               // FIXME: for Windows LAF I'm not getting the correct thing here for some reason.
               // Looks OK on Metal though.
               setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(UIManager.getColor("focusCellHighlightBorder")));
               else
               setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder());
DataMap map = (DataMap) value;
               String displaySource = map.getSource();
               String displayDest = map.getDestination();
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               arrow.setText("=>to<=");
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               return this;
/** Interface for macro editor UI
* @version 1.0
class DataMappings
private Collection mappings;
public DataMappings()
setMappings(new Vector(0));
public DataMappings(Collection maps)
setMappings(maps);
/** gets mapping value of a specified source object
* @param src -- the "key" or source object, what is mapped.
* @return what the source object is mapped to
* @version 1.0
public Object getValue(String src)
if (src != null)
Iterator it = mappings.iterator();
while (it.hasNext());
DataMap thisMap = (DataMap) it.next();
if (thisMap.getSource().equals(src))
return thisMap.getDestination();
return null;
/** sets mapping value of a specified source object
* @param src -- the "key" or source object, what is mapped.
* @param what the source object is to be mapped to
* @version 1.0
public void setValue(String src, String dest)
if (src != null)
// see if the value is in there first.
Iterator it = mappings.iterator();
while (it.hasNext())
DataMap thisMap = (DataMap) it.next();
if (thisMap.getSource().equals(src))
thisMap.setDestination(dest);
return;
// not in the collection, add it
mappings.add(new DataMap(src, dest));
/** gets collection of mappings
* @return a collection of all mappings in this object.
* @version 1.0
public Collection getMappings()
return mappings;
/** sets collection of mappings
* @param maps a collection of src to destination mappings.
* @version 1.0
public void setMappings(Collection maps)
mappings = maps;
/** adds a DataMap
* @param map a DataMap to add to the mappings
* @version 1.0
public void add(DataMap map)
if (map != null)
mappings.add(map);
class DataMap
public DataMap() {}
public DataMap(String source, String destination)
m_source = source;
m_destination = destination;
public String getSource()
return m_source;
public void setSource(String s)
m_source = s;
public String getDestination()
return m_destination;
public void setDestination(String s)
m_destination = s;
protected String m_source = null;
protected String m_destination = null;
/** list model for datamaps that provides ways
* to determine whether a source is already mapped or
* a destination is already mapped.
class DataMapListModel extends DefaultListModel
public DataMapListModel()
super();
/** determines whether a source is already mapped
* @param src -- the source property of a datamapping
* @return true if the source is in the list, false if not
public boolean containsSource(Object src)
Enumeration enum = elements();
while (enum.hasMoreElements())
DataMap dm = (DataMap) enum.nextElement();
if (dm.getSource().equals(src))
return true;
return false;
/** determines whether a destination is already mapped
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* @return true if the destination is in the list, false if not
public boolean containsDest(Object dest)
Enumeration enum = elements();
while (enum.hasMoreElements())
DataMap dm = (DataMap) enum.nextElement();
if (dm.getDestination().equals(dest))
return true;
return false;
public DataMappings getDataMaps()
DataMappings maps = new DataMappings();
// add all the datamaps in the model
Enumeration enum = elements();
while (enum.hasMoreElements())
DataMap dm = (DataMap) enum.nextElement();
maps.add(dm);
return maps;
//======================================================================
// End of Source Listing
//======================================================================

I did not read the program, but the chopping looks like a layout problem.
I think it's heavy to use a panel + 3 components in a gridlayout for each cell. look at this sample where i draw the Cell myself,
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import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;
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     Vector      v = new Vector();
     JList       jc = new JList(v);
     JScrollPane js = new JScrollPane(jc);
public Jlist3()
     addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter()
    {     public void windowClosing(WindowEvent ev)
          {     dispose();
               System.exit(0);}});
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     js.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(230,259));
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     getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout());
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     String txt;
     int     idx;
     boolean sel;
public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list,
                         Object value,           // value to display
                         int     index,           // cell index
                         boolean isSelected,      // is the cell selected
                         boolean cellHasFocus)    // the list and the cell have the focus
     idx = index;
     txt = value.toString();
     sel = isSelected;
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     return(this);
public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
     if (idx%2 == 1) g.setColor(Color.white);
          else        g.setColor(Color.lightGray);
     if (sel)        g.setColor(Color.blue);
     g.fillRect(0,0,getWidth(),getHeight());
     StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(txt.trim()," ");
     g.setColor(Color.black);
     if (st.hasMoreTokens())     g.drawString(st.nextToken(),1,14);
     g.setColor(Color.red);
     g.drawString("===>",70,14);
     g.setColor(Color.black);
     if (st.hasMoreTokens())     g.drawString(st.nextToken(),110,14);
public static void main (String[] args)
     new Jlist3();
Noah
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;
public class Jlist3 extends JFrame
     Vector v = new Vector();
     JList jc = new JList(v);
     JScrollPane js = new JScrollPane(jc);
public Jlist3()
     addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter()
{     public void windowClosing(WindowEvent ev)
          {     dispose();
               System.exit(0);}});
     for (int j=0; j < 70; j++)     v.add(""+j*1000+"a d"+j);
     setBounds(1,1,400,310);
     getContentPane().add(js);
     js.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(230,259));
     jc.setSelectedIndex(1);
     jc.setCellRenderer(new MyCellRenderer());
     getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout());
     setVisible(true);
public class MyCellRenderer extends JLabel implements ListCellRenderer
     String txt;
     int idx;
     boolean sel;
public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list,
                         Object value, // value to display
                         int index, // cell index
                         boolean isSelected, // is the cell selected
                         boolean cellHasFocus) // the list and the cell have the focus
     idx = index;
     txt = value.toString();
     sel = isSelected;
     setText(txt);
     return(this);
public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
     if (idx%2 == 1) g.setColor(Color.white);
          else g.setColor(Color.lightGray);
     if (sel) g.setColor(Color.blue);
     g.fillRect(0,0,getWidth(),getHeight());
     StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(txt.trim()," ");
     g.setColor(Color.black);
     if (st.hasMoreTokens())     g.drawString(st.nextToken(),1,14);
     g.setColor(Color.red);
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     g.setColor(Color.black);
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     new Jlist3();
}

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Example of Code...
if(selButton =1)
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else
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TIA,
CK

Did you try:
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Focus Question

Is it possible to change the color of the focus rectangle in
an application? I'm a bit of a newbie. I tried extending the
mx.skins.halo.HaloFocusRect class, but couldn't get that to work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
- Jason

Jason,
You can use the Application.themeColor style to alter the
overall color schemes for Flex. I don't know whether you not that
helps you specifically, but it will change a majority of colors
within your Application.
Just throw the themeColor attribute into your Application tag
and it will tint certain things, like focus rectangles, red
(#FF0000). Or if you're using a CSS file, the Application style has
a themeColor property there too.
<mx:Application
themeColor="#FF0000">
Hope that helps.

Focus on to a checkbox which has no label

I have a screen which has few checkboxes with out labels.. and when I tab through them I dont know which has the focus(visually). This problem is because the focus is painted to the label of the checkbox not the checkbox!!
Can anyone give me a wayout ASAP!!
Thanks in advance...

Sounds like you might need to create a custom UI for JCheckBox that has different focus behavior. The UI delegate for JCheckBox extends BasicRadioButtonUI, which has a method:
protected void paintFocus(Graphics g,
Rectangle textRect, Dimension size){
}This method is overridden in the various PLAFs to paint focus as the LAF defines. Since caption-less check boxes are not the norm, the
rectangle that is being painted will be empty. When you override the
paintFocus() method you may want to recalculate what the
focus rectangle is so it is more appropriate.
Replace the UI delegate for a checkbox using the setUI() method and that ought to do it.
Mitch

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Hi all, I am having this problem when my camera is on Auto Mode but doesn't focus on anything. The focus rectangle turn red everytime! I looked in the sensor, the optics used to move for focussing, but now it stays still! Help please.

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Help - text boxes/highlighting hidden unless selected in Acrobat Pro 9.2

I am working Acrobat Pro 9.2. When I insert a text box, it disappears when I click somewhere else. I can only tell it's there If I hover over it - I get a black mouse arrow. If I click on it and select it, then I can see the text and border, but if I click anywhere else, it disappears. I've tried all the options and settings I can find. It is set to show, not hide, all comments and text boxes. Also, when I try to highlight regular text, it puts a little yellow, symbol above my text but does not highlight the text. When I roll the mouse over it, a yellow note pops up with the text I highlighted, but when I move the mouse away, nothing is highlighted. Again, I've tried changing all of the settings I can find related to highlighting but nothing works. I use Acrobat on other computers and have used both text boxes and highlighting without any problem. Is this due to a setting somewhere, or is there something wrong with my installation of Adobe? Thanks.

Something to check.
To have text selected by the Highlight tool placed into the annotation's pop-up:
Preferences > select Category "Commenting"
There are three panes of configuration options.
--| View Comments
--| Pop-Up Open Behavior
--| Making Comments
Tick the last option (Copy selected text into Highlight, Cross-Out, and Underline comment pop-ups) in the third pane.
Play with the other options as you may find others that are very useful.
For form fields:
Preferences > select Category "Forms"
In the first pane (General), select "Show focus rectangle".
In the second pane (Highlight Color) select "Show border hover color for fields".
Be well...

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