How to prevent moving the cursor on a jFormattedTextfield with a mask?

Question

I have a field formatted as follows: '### ### ###'

When I click on the field that contains that mask sometimes the cursor gets me in the middle or where I click.

Example: '##|# ### ###'

Is there any way to prevent the cursor from being moved around by clicking on the field?

Answer 1

Check this code:

(has not been tested) [Part 1]

MouseListener ml = new MouseAdapter()
{
    public void mousePressed(final MouseEvent e)
    {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable()
        {
            public void run()
            {
                JTextField tf = (JTextField)e.getSource();
                int offset = tf.viewToModel(e.getPoint());
                tf.setCaretPosition(offset);
            }
        });
    }
};

[2nd part]

 MeteONomeDoTeujFormattedTextfield.addMouseListener(ml);

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