I would like to use a JComboBox but the powers that be say they want it to be entered manually. Also, the example above would be simple enough but some of the values for other areas range in the thousands. and typing would typicall be much faster than the drop-down-and-scroll-til-you-find-it method.
And, I am not familiar with what you mean by Spinner.
For the stopCellEditing() method I have a
test program I tried that with a couple of days ago and stragely enough that event was fired upon double clicking in the field and not after exiting the field and it was only fired once. double clicking and entering a new value did not retrigger the event.
In this example I was specifically checking for A01 as being the only valid value and if any thing else was entered it would "ding" and would remaing being edited.
Thanks so far for the suggestions.