Accepting formatted input doesn't have to be difficult with input verifiers and focus listeners. This installment of Magic with Merlin shows you how to use the new JFormattedTextField component to prompt for numbers, dates, and formatted input. The Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), version 1.4, adds two new Swing components to the palette of available GUI elements: JSpinner and JFormattedTextField.
The JFormattedTextField class is very useful in today's programming world as we are looking to create fields which accept particular format of text or numbers
The new addition is of excellent advantage, Mar 6, 2003
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