WebRunnerTM MaskedTextField Bean 1.0

If you are developing JavaTM applications, applets, or composite JavaBeansTM, Taligent's WebRunner Beans can help you become productive very quickly. These Beans are part of the WebRunner Toolkit, which also includes other sets of starter beans and and tools for creating and working with JavaBeans. This package includes the MaskedTextField version 1.0.

The MaskedTextField Bean is a powerful text field for controlling user input. It is a text input field that only allows user input that matches a specified mask. The mask determines which characters are allowed to be entered by using special mask characters which check keyboard input against the valid characters allowed for the particular mask character. The Bean can be used for text entry of telephone numbers, social security numbers or user IDs, integer or decimal numeric values, and much more. The MaskedTextField is very flexible -- you can redefine what characters are considered mask characters and the allowed keys associated to that mask character.

For complete information, refer to the Documentation. Updates to the documentation will periodically be available at the Taligent website.
 

Installation Instructions

For installation of the Bean on Windows platforms:
  • WebRunner Bean Installation for JDK 1.1.1

    1. Unzip the file mask100.zip (or mask100e.zip for evaluation product) to a local directory of your choice.
    2. Import the masktext.jar file that is packaged in the mask100(e).zip.
    3. The documentation for the bean is provided in the ZIP file.
  • WebRunner Bean Installation for use with VisualAge for Java Version 1.0

    1. Unzip the file mask100.zip (or mask100e.zip for evaluation product) to a local directory of your choice.
    2. Import the extracted files into VisualAge for Java:

      1. Launch the VisualAge for Java Integrated Development Environment.
      2. From the File menu, choose the Import menu item.
      3. A SmartGuide Import dialog box appears.
      4. Type in a new Project name, or browse and select an existing Project name where you want the Bean to be added.
      5. Click on the JAR file option then click on the Next button.
      6. Click on the Browse button, browse to the directory where you extracted the files from the mask100(e).zip file and choose the file masktext.jar.
      7. Select the JAR files which now show up in the list of JAR files in the Smart Guide dialog, and click on the Finish button to import them into VisualAge for Java.

        Back in the Workbench of VisualAge for Java, you should now see the complete set of classes under the Project name that you had specified during the Import process.

    3. The documentation for the bean is provided in the ZIP file.

Supported Platforms

The current release of this WebRunner Bean has been tested for use with the JDK1.1.1 available on WindowsNT and Windows95. Releases on other platforms will be supported in the near future, depending on the availability of stable releases of the JDK1.1.1 on those platforms.

 
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