public class EditField

A pure Codename One text field.

EditField is a drop-in alternative to TextField / TextArea that edits text entirely with the framework’s own text engine (the same engine that backs CodeEditor and RichTextArea) instead of a native peer. Selection, caret movement, word / line navigation, undo and clipboard all work on every port: on iOS, Android and JavaScript the platform soft keyboard, hardware keyboard and IME drive it through the low-level text-input SPI; on the desktop ports the raw physical-keyboard path is used. Because there is no native peer the field is a real, self-contained lightweight component – it never floats above the UI, scrolls perfectly with its parent and can live anywhere a Component can.

It intentionally mirrors the common TextField / TextArea API (#setText(String), #getText(), #setHint(String), #setConstraint(int), #addDataChangedListener(DataChangedListener), #addActionListener(ActionListener), #setSingleLineTextArea(boolean)) and implements the same TextHolder and ActionSource interfaces those components do, so code written against those interfaces (validators, form binding, generic listeners) works unchanged. It also offers the same constructor families: the TextField-style constructors create single-line fields while the TextArea-style (rows, columns) constructors create multi-line editors, making the single- vs multi-line choice explicit at construction. It is still a distinct class – not assignable to TextField / TextArea – so switching to the pure engine is always a deliberate, opt-in choice.

// single line, like TextField
EditField name = new EditField("", "Name", TextArea.EMAILADDR);
name.addActionListener(e -> submit(name.getText()));
form.add(name);

// multi line, like TextArea
EditField notes = new EditField(5, 30);
form.add(notes);