NumberFormatter
subclasses
InternationalFormatter
adding special behavior for numbers. Among the specializations are
(these are only used if the
NumberFormatter
does not display
invalid nubers, eg
setAllowsInvalid(false)
):
- Pressing +/- (- is determined from the
DecimalFormatSymbols
associated with the
DecimalFormat
) in any field but the exponent
field will attempt to change the sign of the number to
positive/negative.
- Pressing +/- (- is determined from the
DecimalFormatSymbols
associated with the
DecimalFormat
) in the exponent field will
attemp to change the sign of the exponent to positive/negative.
If you are displaying scientific numbers, you may wish to turn on
overwrite mode, setOverwriteMode(true)
. For example:
DecimalFormat decimalFormat = new DecimalFormat("0.000E0");
NumberFormatter textFormatter = new NumberFormatter(decimalFormat);
textFormatter.setOverwriteMode(true);
textFormatter.setAllowsInvalid(false);
If you are going to allow the user to enter decimal
values, you should either force the DecimalFormat to contain at least
one decimal (#.0###
), or allow the value to be invalid
setAllowsInvalid(true)
. Otherwise users may not be able to
input decimal values.
NumberFormatter
provides slightly different behavior to
stringToValue
than that of its superclass. If you have
specified a Class for values, DefaultFormatter.setValueClass(java.lang.Class>)
, that is one of
of Integer
, Long
, Float
,
Double
, Byte
or Short
and
the Format's parseObject
returns an instance of
Number
, the corresponding instance of the value class
will be created using the constructor appropriate for the primitive
type the value class represents. For example:
setValueClass(Integer.class)
will cause the resulting
value to be created via
new Integer(((Number)formatter.parseObject(string)).intValue())
.
This is typically useful if you
wish to set a min/max value as the various Number
implementations are generally not comparable to each other. This is also
useful if for some reason you need a specific Number
implementation for your values.
Warning:
Serialized objects of this class will not be compatible with
future Swing releases. The current serialization support is
appropriate for short term storage or RMI between applications running
the same version of Swing. As of 1.4, support for long term storage
of all JavaBeansTM
has been added to the java.beans
package.
Please see XMLEncoder
.