extends PlainDocument to create a float value type text field

    
import java.awt.FlowLayout;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.text.AttributeSet;
import javax.swing.text.BadLocationException;
import javax.swing.text.PlainDocument;

class JTextFieldFilter extends PlainDocument {
  public static final String FLOAT = "0123456789.";

  protected String acceptedChars = null;

  protected boolean negativeAccepted = false;

  public JTextFieldFilter() {
    this(FLOAT);
  }

  public JTextFieldFilter(String acceptedchars) {
    acceptedChars = acceptedchars;
  }

  public void setNegativeAccepted(boolean negativeaccepted) {
    if (acceptedChars.equals(FLOAT)) {
      negativeAccepted = negativeaccepted;
      acceptedChars += "-";
    }
  }

  public void insertString(int offset, String str, AttributeSet attr) throws BadLocationException {
    if (str == null)
      return;

    for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
      if (acceptedChars.indexOf(str.valueOf(str.charAt(i))) == -1)
        return;
    }

    if (acceptedChars.equals(FLOAT) || (acceptedChars.equals(FLOAT + "-") && negativeAccepted)) {
      if (str.indexOf(".") != -1) {
        if (getText(0, getLength()).indexOf(".") != -1) {
          return;
        }
      }
    }

    if (negativeAccepted && str.indexOf("-") != -1) {
      if (str.indexOf("-") != 0 || offset != 0) {
        return;
      }
    }

    super.insertString(offset, str, attr);
  }
}

public class Main extends JFrame {

  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
    new Main();
  }

  public Main() {
    JTextField tf1b;
    JLabel l1b;

    setLayout(new FlowLayout());

    l1b = new JLabel("only float");
    tf1b = new JTextField(10);
    getContentPane().add(l1b);
    getContentPane().add(tf1b);
    tf1b.setDocument(new JTextFieldFilter(JTextFieldFilter.FLOAT));
    setSize(300, 300);
    setVisible(true);
  }
}

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