Show/Hide PasswordField

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• download src.zip
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Code

JPasswordField pf = new JPasswordField(24);
pf.setText("abcdefghijklmn");
pf.setAlignmentX(Component.RIGHT_ALIGNMENT);
AbstractDocument doc = (AbstractDocument) pf.getDocument();
doc.setDocumentFilter(new ASCIIOnlyDocumentFilter());

AbstractButton b = new JToggleButton(new AbstractAction() {
  @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    AbstractButton c = (AbstractButton) e.getSource();
    Character ec = c.isSelected() ? 0
        : (Character) UIManager.get("PasswordField.echoChar");
    pf.setEchoChar(ec);
  }
});
b.setFocusable(false);
b.setOpaque(false);
b.setContentAreaFilled(false);
b.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(0, 0, 0, 4));
b.setAlignmentX(Component.RIGHT_ALIGNMENT);
b.setAlignmentY(Component.CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
b.setIcon(new ColorIcon(Color.GREEN));
b.setRolloverIcon(new ColorIcon(Color.BLUE));
b.setSelectedIcon(new ColorIcon(Color.RED));
b.setRolloverSelectedIcon(new ColorIcon(Color.ORANGE));

JPanel panel = new JPanel() {
  @Override public boolean isOptimizedDrawingEnabled() {
    return false;
  }
};
panel.setLayout(new OverlayLayout(panel));
panel.add(b);
panel.add(pf);

References

• Show/Hide PasswordField using CardLayout(Japanese)