Re: How to create your own numeric components ?

Geert,

Glad to hear you have found a solution! Subclassing PlainDocument is a good
idea. It just occurred to me -- you might want to override replaceString as
well. I think replaceString will be called if someone selects part of your
string and then pastes other text into it, although I am not 100% sure.

Luther

----- Original Message -----
From: Geert Van Landeghem <gvl@reynderseti.be>
To: <JAVA400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, 21 January 2000 9:08
Subject: RE: How to create your own numeric components ?


> Luther,
>
> I think I found a better way to create numeric components:
> by creating a subclass of PlainDocument and overriding
> the insertString() method to accept only digits and a separator.
> I found an example in JFC Unleashed and it works fine! The big advantage
> of working with a subclass of PlainDocument is that it can also be used
for
> other
> text components to accept only numeric input.
>
> When creating a JRNumField that acts like a packed decimal 6,2 field
> I now have to use the following code:
>   JRNumField txf_myfield=new JRNumField(6,2,'.');
>   // the setDocument(new PackedFilterDocument(this)) is executed in the
> constructor
>   // of JRNumField class
>   // add the component to the layout ...
>
>
>
> For those interested I added the code of my own PackedFilterDocument
class:
...

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