Example text in JTextField

Question

I am looking for a way to put example text into a swing JTextField and have it grayed out. The example text should then disappear as soon as any thing is entered into that t

Answer 1

Rather than overriding, put a value in the field and add a KeyListener that would remove the value when a key stroke is registered. Maybe also have it change the foreground.

You could wrap this up into your own custom JTextField class that would take the default text in a constructor.