src/solaris/classes/sun/awt/X11/XTextFieldPeer.java

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      }
  
      protected boolean setXAWTTextField(String txt) {
          text = txt;
          if (xtext != null)  {
+             // Please note that we do not want to post an event
+             // if setText() replaces an empty text by an empty text,
+             // that is, if component's text remains unchanged.
+             if (xtext.getDocument().getLength() == 0 && txt.length() == 0) {
+                 return true;
+             }
              // JTextField.setText() posts two different events (remove & insert).
              // Since we make no differences between text events,
              // the document listener has to be disabled while
              // JTextField.setText() is called.
              xtext.getDocument().removeDocumentListener(xtext);