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1. How To limit the number of characters in JTextField?    stackoverflow.com

How to limit the number of characters entered in a JTextField? Suppose I want to enter say 5 characters max. After that no characters can be entered into it.

2. Limit number of characters in JTextField    stackoverflow.com

I try to limit the number of allowable characters to 5 by using

    try {
        jFormattedTextField2.setFormatterFactory(new javax.swing.text.DefaultFormatterFactory(new javax.swing.text.MaskFormatter("*****")));
    ...

3. Unable to set limit the number of characters in JTextField    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to limit the number of characters entered in the JTextField...for that purpose i created a class like this:


    class JTextFieldLimiter extends PlainDocument  ...

4. limit number of characters in a JTextField?    coderanch.com

I'm using VA for Java 3.02 and of course, I am a true beginner. I've kind of been playing around with it for the last week. My problem is I want to limit the number of characters that a user can key in a text field. I can't seem to figure out how to do this. Can someone please help me? ...

5. How to limit text in AWT Text field ?    coderanch.com

Hi, I am using AWT text field (Jdk 1.1.7), I need to limit the number of chars entered in the text field. For that i am setting cloumn using setColumn and in the keyPressed method of its KeyListener I am using the following code : if (getColumn()!= -1) { char keyc = e.getKeyChar(); if (keyc >= 32 && keyc <= 126)

6. Entry limit to Textfields    coderanch.com

hi all, i wrote some code to check the length of textfields. as i have to save all into a DB, where i've got some varchar(10). the code i have allows you to type only 10 chars into the respective textfield, but my problem is, that if i paste a longer string into it (from clipboard), the textfields accepts it and ...

7. Limit JTextField number of characters    coderanch.com

9. JTextField set size limit.    coderanch.com

Hi, Im trying to add this action listener to all these jText fields one by one, but it only adds it to one of the jTextFields and ignores all the other ones in the array. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? for (int b = 0; b < stringArray4.length; b++) { label = new JLabel(stringArray4[b]); textFieldArray3[b] = new JTextField(20); ...





10. Limit the character in JTextField    coderanch.com

I also post my problem in dreamincode.net. Is there a way to limit the character in JTextField? Because all i have found is limit number of input in JTextField which make me can't replace the text or even use backspace.. What i need is i can input only 1 character but i can use backspace to make it empty again and ...

11. limit text-input on a JTextField    coderanch.com

... someone else's solution to this problem: And that solution is 10 years old and is NOT a good solution. That used to be the solution posted in the Swing tutorial until new Swing classes where added in JDK1.3 I believe. I gave you a couple of the solutions that are currently used, now that JFormattedTextField and DocumentFilters have been added ...

12. jtextfield limit?    java-forums.org

13. how do I limit user to put certain format in JTextField    forums.oracle.com

If you're going to be looking at what the user keys into the JTextField then you should be using a DocumentListener and not mucking about looking at keystrokes. The DocumentListener abstracts out the keystrokes (including paste and backspace and so on) and just shows you what changed. However you can't edit a date by looking at the keystrokes. You can't tell ...