Java javax.swing.text MaskFormatter fields, constructors, methods, implement or subclass

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Introduction

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Subclass

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Constructor

	MaskFormatter(String mask) Creates a `MaskFormatter` with the specified mask.
	MaskFormatter() Creates a MaskFormatter with no mask.

Method

String	getMask() Returns the formatting mask.
Class	getValueClass() Returns that class that is used to create new Objects.
void	install(JFormattedTextField ftf) Installs the `DefaultFormatter` onto a particular `JFormattedTextField`.
void	setAllowsInvalid(boolean allowsInvalid) Sets whether or not the value being edited is allowed to be invalid for a length of time (that is, `stringToValue` throws a `ParseException`).
void	setMask(String mask) Sets the mask dictating the legal characters.
void	setOverwriteMode(boolean overwriteMode) Configures the behavior when inserting characters.
void	setPlaceholder(String placeholder) Sets the string to use if the value does not completely fill in the mask.
void	setPlaceholderCharacter(char placeholder) Sets the character to use in place of characters that are not present in the value, ie the user must fill them in.
void	setValidCharacters(String validCharacters) Allows for further restricting of the characters that can be input.
void	setValueClass(Class valueClass) Sets that class that is used to create new Objects.
void	setValueContainsLiteralCharacters(boolean containsLiteralChars) If true, the returned value and set value will also contain the literal characters in mask.
Object	stringToValue(String value) Parses the text, returning the appropriate Object representation of the String `value`.
String	valueToString(Object value) Returns a String representation of the Object `value` based on the mask.