Finding nested Java components

General Discussion
1

I figured out how to change the caret color for the underlying JTextArea of a PMITextArea but it seems like there is probably a better or cleaner way to do this.

What is a better way to do this?

text_area = event.source.getComponent("Text Area Whatever") children = text_area .getComponents() for child in children: if type(child).__name__ == "JViewport": vpChildren = child.getComponents() for vpChild in vpChildren: if type(vpChild).__name__ == "JTextArea": vpChild.setCaretColor(java.awt.Color.green)

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You don’t need to loop through everything. You can just do the following:

from java.awt import Color
area = event.source.parent.getComponent("Text Area")
area.viewport.view.setCaretColor(Color.green)

Hope this helps.
Also, in the future this sort of post might be better fit for the Ignition Design Help area.

3

[quote=“dave.fogle”]You don’t need to loop through everything. You can just do the following:

from java.awt import Color
area = event.source.parent.getComponent("Text Area")
area.viewport.view.setCaretColor(Color.green)

Hope this helps.
Also, in the future this sort of post might be better fit for the Ignition Design Help area.[/quote]

Thanks! That’s exactly what I was looking for.