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Thulasi Kalahasti wrote:
> 
> How can I restrict the number of characters that can be entered for a
> textfield.
> Say I don't want the user to enter more than 8 characters into a
> textfield, how do you I do that?
> I tried setSize() and setColumns() methods, but they don't work.
> Anyone could you please help me.

Check the API.  setColumns() doesn't do what you think it does.

Try this approach for a KeyHandler.

init or some place:

    textArea1.addKeyListener(new KeyEventHandler());

class KeyEventHandler extends KeyAdapter {
  public void keyPressed(KeyEvent evt) {
    char c = evt.getKeyChar();
    if ((((TextComponent)evt.getComponent()).getText().length() >= 5))

      if (((Character.isDigit(c)) | (Character.isLetter(c))))
        evt.consume();  // eat it if it's a character or number
  }

}


This will restrict the field to 5 characters.



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