JDK-4196276 : JTextField needs easy/convenient way to limit total # of input chars
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: client-libs
  • Sub-Component: javax.swing
  • Affected Version: 1.1.6,1.2.0
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: generic,solaris_2.6,windows_95
  • CPU: generic,x86
  • Submitted: 1998-12-10
  • Updated: 2000-07-21
  • Resolved: 2000-07-21
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-4290529 - New Swing Component: Spinner
Duplicate :  
JDK-4205412 - Require setMaximumLength(int) on JTextComponent
Description

Name: krT82822			Date: 12/09/98


Original synopsis(subject):  "No easy way to limit the length of input to a JTextField"

The subject says it all.  "Make the common things
easy and the complicated things possible" is what
I keep hearing.  Limiting the number of characters
than can be typed into a text field is a very
common need, but I see no simple way to do it.
(Review ID: 33502)
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Comments
EVALUATION This can easily be done by customizing the Document. For merlin however, we will have some kind of mask field support which would cover this kind of functionality. timothy.prinzing@eng 2000-03-22 This feature is being tracked through 4290529, which I am closely out as a dup of.
22-03-2000