Render and blit your own textfield like thingy independent from Swing...that's at least what i would do, because it will still work in OpenGL mode and it will look like the actual game, not like a Swing GUI-component on top of it. However, Swing is the most counter intuitive API there is for me, so i avoid using it like the plaque anyway...so i'm not the right person to answer this question in an unbiased manner.... :wink: