JFormattedTextField and Date

[Serghei Jelauc]

Hi all.
I have created JFormattedTextField with the mask (##/##/##). In this field the Date will be inserted by users. For example let first two digits will be month. The question is how I can restrict input first number if it more than 12?

Thanks in advance.

[Tim McGuire]

Hi.
This isn't a mask, but for dates you could use:

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
JFormattedTextField txtDate = new JFormattedTextField(df);
txtDate.setColumns(10);

the default behavior with this is that if you give months greater than 12, it adds that many months to the date:

so typing 13/22/2003 gets changed to 1/22/2004

to stop this, use
df.setLenient(false)

[Serghei Jelauc]

Thanks a lot. But one thing still nonunderstandable.
This is my code:

  
Dateformat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy");
DateFormatter formatter = new DateFormatter(format);
format.setLenient(false);
formatter.setAllowsInvalid(false);
formatter.setOverwriteMode(true);
 
ftf = new JFormattedTextField(formatter);
ftf.setValue(new Date());

if month is for example 07 and I want to input "12" the JFormattedTextField doesn't give me to do that, because when I input first digit "1" it interprets it as 17.
How to be in that case?

Thanks in advance