JTextField outputs only String objects, which are immutable. I'm looking for a look-alike class that allows a char[] output for security, just as JPasswordField does for single lines of text.
I can convert to and from Strings, but I don't want the text to exist as a String anywhere, for security purposes.
JPasswordField uses document.getText(), which returns a String.
I'd say you'd have to roll-your-own textfield for what you want.
one way might be to create a JTextField that is limited to 1 character,
it has no borders/margins etc, so it's just a little white square. you add
say 15 of these to a GridLayout panel, then you set the panel's border
to that of a normal textfield, so it should look like one textfield.
focuslisteners needed to check
1) if prior textfield empty, move the focus there
2) if textfield already has 1 character, move focus to next textfield
hard part will be handling e.g password is java, and you type jva,
you can place the caret between jv and add a.
This seems to be a duplicate of your earlier post.
Many people answered and finally a simple suggestion was provided by Rob Spoor. Did you use it? Did you even read the replies to that post?
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