Restricting a Java Text field to alphabet

Thursday, April 10, 2014 java 0 Comments

This is slightly opposite to what we have seen  in one of the previous posts
Please use the below DocumentFilter for the same.

class MyDocFilter extends DocumentFilter {
   private static final String REMOVE_REGEX = "\\d";
   private boolean filter = true;

   public boolean isFilter() {
      return filter;
   }

   public void setFilter(boolean filter) {
      this.filter = filter;
   }

   @Override
   public void insertString(FilterBypass fb, int offset, String text,
         AttributeSet attr) throws BadLocationException {
      if (filter) {
         text = text.replaceAll(REMOVE_REGEX, "");
      }
      super.insertString(fb, offset, text, attr);

   }

   @Override
   public void replace(FilterBypass fb, int offset, int length, String text,
         AttributeSet attrs) throws BadLocationException {
      if (filter) {
         text = text.replaceAll(REMOVE_REGEX, "");
      }
      super.replace(fb, offset, length, text, attrs);

   }
}