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[pia bezzina]

well first question is, how do you limit the number of characters in a JTextField?!

thanks

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to JavaRanch

That sounds like a Swing-related question, which they like on the Swing forum, so I shall move it.

[Maneesh Godbole]

The usual way to do is by tweaking the Document#insertString() method.

1) Extend a PlainDocument which implements Document
2) override the PlainDocument#insertString, to check if the threshold is about to be crossed, if yes, do nothing, if no call super.insertString
3) Attach this custom document either in the constructor of your JTextField or calling the setDocument() method.