JTextField: How to limit the number of characters?

Question

Please have a look at the following code.

import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.AbstractDocum         


        

Answer 1

You should make your own class that checks whether you gave more input than the maximum allowed length: See an example on http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/0240__Swing/LimitJTextFieldinputtoamaximumlength.htm.