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WebRunner Beans

MaskedTextField Bean Overview

The Taligent 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.

The MaskedTextField is a Java Bean complete with BeanInfo and Customizer. The component can be used in your favorite GUI Builder application. The text field behaves like java.awt.TextField: mouse selection and positioning is fully supported as well as cut and paste operations with the host system.

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