JTextField limit input to certains chars only

Question

i\'d like to create JTextField with input characters limited to someting like \"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYWZZ0123456789+&@#/%?=~_-|!:,.;\" so i t

Answer 1

maybe better would be use DocumentFilter with Pattern,

Answer 2

Try a JFormattedTextField and use

MaskFormatter mf = new MaskFormatter();
mf.setValidCharacters("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYWZZ0123456789+&@#/%?=~_-|!:,.;");
JFormattedTextField textField = new JFormattedTextField(mf);

Edit: Sorry, that was the wrong code, here's the working one