Input field for time only!

[hellboy_83]

Hi Guys, I need to format an input field to accept only time with this format: "H:mm:s" How can this be done?

[Nagy Vilmos]

This could be quite an intersting side project, but I think the easiest thing would be a quick google for swing time controls. There are plenty of choices here[^], I wouldn't write your own.

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[fly904]

You can assign a KeyListener to the JTextField and perform a quick validation check after a key is typed. Here[^] is a good example of applying the KeyListener.

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[Nagy Vilmos]

If allowed it's simpler to plug in a control to do the job for you.

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[fly904]

True, but I haven't come across any controls that format the date like he wants and perform a validation to check it is a valid date. Then again, I haven't looked.

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[Nagy Vilmos]

fly904 wrote:

I haven't looked

I surface skimmed what's on the Sun site.

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[David Skelly]

I think JDatePicker supports this format, it certainly has an example in the screenshot on the home page. I'm not sure what it does with the value you enter, though, because Java does not have a Time type. Alternatively, I suppose you could build your own with JFormattedTextField and an InputVerifier or the JGoodies Validation framework.