The methods are simple enough, so I can't think of a way to simplify them any further. What you can do, though, is prevent code repetition by declaring one FocusListener instance and then add it using addFocusListener(...)
to all text-fields.
It would look something like this:
// Instantiate a FocusListener ONCE
java.awt.event.FocusListener myFocusListener = new java.awt.event.FocusListener() {
public void focusGained(java.awt.event.FocusEvent focusEvent) {
try {
JTextField src = (JTextField)focusEvent.getSource();
if (src.getText().equals("Text here!") {
src.setText("");
}
} catch (ClassCastException ignored) {
/* I only listen to JTextFields */
}
}
public void focusLost(java.awt.event.FocusEvent focusEvent) {
try {
JTextField src = (JTextField)focusEvent.getSource();
if (src.getText().equals("") {
src.setText("Text here!");
}
} catch (ClassCastException ignored) {
/* I only listen to JTextFields */
}
}
};
(You could omit the try-catch
blocks if you were absolutely sure that the source of the event would always be a JTextField, but it is always a bad practice to rely on such assumptions.)
Then, for every JTextField you only need to add the same FocusListener:
...
someTextField.addFocusListener(myFocusListener);
...
(It's only half a line - difficult to get any shorter than that.)
Another alternative would be to subclass JTextField, adding a FocusListener in the constructor, but I don't see any advantage over the first solution (unless you want a more flexible/powerful solution, e.g. different text for each JTextField etc).