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How to limit the size of a JTextField?

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Avin Sinanan

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How to limit the size of a JTextField? Posted: Mar 31, 2002 2:56 AM
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Hello,
I was wondering how to limit the size of a JTextfield to say 5 characters so that onlt 5 letters can fit.

The code does not work ;

JTextField field = new JTextField(5) ;

why doesn't this work?

any suggestions?

yours respectfully Avin Sinanan


steve strongheart

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Re: How to limit the size of a JTextField? Posted: Apr 4, 2002 11:40 PM
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I've experienced some bugginess with JTextfield too sometimes, try

tf = new JTextField("",5);
or tf.setColumns(5);

You might want to change to a fixed width font.
The TextField might fit 5 M's and 20 1's or l's in a varible width font.

Java makes no garauntee, since many languages have characters whose width changes based on the surrounding letters, meaning of the word and you have to allow for some thermal expansion.

~S~

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