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/* Java Swing, 2nd Edition By Marc Loy, Robert Eckstein, Dave Wood, James Elliott, Brian Cole ISBN: 0-596-00408-7 Publisher: O'Reilly */ // FactoryDemo.java //Demo 1: field with different formats with focus and without.<br> //Demo 2: Change the format of a field when the user presses a button. // import java.awt.BorderLayout; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import java.text.ParseException; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JFormattedTextField; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.border.TitledBorder; import javax.swing.text.DefaultFormatterFactory; import javax.swing.text.MaskFormatter; public class FactoryDemo { public static JPanel demo1() { // Demo 1: field with different formats with focus and without JPanel pan = new JPanel(new BorderLayout()); pan.setBorder(new TitledBorder("Demo 1: format toggles with focus")); MaskFormatter withFocus = null, withoutFocus = null; try { withFocus = new MaskFormatter("LLLL"); withoutFocus = new MaskFormatter("UUUU"); } catch (ParseException pe) { } DefaultFormatterFactory factory = new DefaultFormatterFactory(withoutFocus, null, withFocus); JFormattedTextField field = new JFormattedTextField(factory); field.setValue("Four"); pan.add(field, BorderLayout.CENTER); return pan; } public static JPanel demo2() { // Demo 2: Change the format of a field when the user presses a button. // We can't call field.setFormatter() because that's a protected method. // (Plus it wouldn't work anyway. The old factory would replace our new // formatter with an "old" one next time the field gains or loses // focus.) // The thing to do is send a new factory to field.setFormatterFactory(). JPanel pan = new JPanel(new BorderLayout()); pan.setBorder(new TitledBorder("Demo 2: change format midstream")); MaskFormatter lowercase = null; try { lowercase = new MaskFormatter("LLLL"); } catch (ParseException pe) { } final JFormattedTextField field = new JFormattedTextField(lowercase); field.setValue("Fore"); pan.add(field, BorderLayout.CENTER); final JButton change = new JButton("change format"); JPanel changePanel = new JPanel(); changePanel.add(change); pan.add(changePanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH); change.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) { try { field.commitEdit(); // commit current edit (if any) MaskFormatter uppercase = new MaskFormatter("UUUU"); DefaultFormatterFactory factory = new DefaultFormatterFactory(uppercase); field.setFormatterFactory(factory); change.setEnabled(false); } catch (ParseException pe) { } } }); return pan; } public static void main(String argv[]) { JFrame f = new JFrame("FactoryDemo"); f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); f.getContentPane().add(demo1(), BorderLayout.NORTH); f.getContentPane().add(demo2(), BorderLayout.SOUTH); f.setSize(240, 160); f.setVisible(true); } }