Tab Physical, physical table you got a quick-search as-you-type filter on the top right. Now it's annoying to type in something new if something is already entered. You can do several improvements on that to make it handy:
- Basic: focus gained listener that does a textField.selectAll()
- Medium: use a "gray foreground text when empty" that shows "Search...". If I recall correctly, JTextField supports that. Don't use .setForeground() to do that, but the featureon JTextField.
- All the way: Use SwingX's (or is it jide-common-layer, which is also open sourced?) textfield made for such fields. When empty it shows a zoom glass on the right; when text entered it shows an X which when clicked on deletes the text; when selected it selects the entire text; when empty it can also show "Search..." in gray foreground text.
Jajuk's great btw :)