Java JTextField set document for float value
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); }/* w w w . j a v a 2 s . co m*/ 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 Main() { setLayout(new FlowLayout()); JLabel label = new JLabel("only float"); JTextField textField = new JTextField(10); getContentPane().add(label); getContentPane().add(textField); textField.setDocument(new JTextFieldFilter(JTextFieldFilter.FLOAT)); setSize(300, 300); setVisible(true); } public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception { new Main(); } }