JavaFX TextField Array max length of text value

Question

I am working on a JavaFX project and I have a problem using the TextField control. I want to limit the characters that users will enter to each TextField to one. I found a solut

Answer 1

This is a solution without a GridPane, but this is an easy process of adding the Fields also to a GridPane. And now with a TextFormatter that is much better.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.function.UnaryOperator;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.control.TextFormatter;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class ChangeListenerDemo extends Application {

  @Override
  public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
    List<TextField> fields = createLimitedTextFields(9, 1);

    VBox box = new VBox();
    box.getChildren().addAll(fields);

    Scene scene = new Scene(box, 300, 250);
    primaryStage.setScene(scene);
    primaryStage.show();
  }

  private List<TextField> createLimitedTextFields(int num, int maxLength) {
    final List<TextField> fields = new ArrayList<>();

    final UnaryOperator<TextFormatter.Change> filter
            = (TextFormatter.Change change) -> {
       if (change.getControlNewText().length() > maxLength) {
             return null;
       }
       return change;
    };
    for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
      final TextField tf = new TextField();
      tf.setTextFormatter(new TextFormatter(filter));
      fields.add(tf);
    }
    return fields;
  }

  /**
   * @param args the command line arguments
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    launch(args);
  }
}