Netbeans form editor and JFormattedTextField

[Mack Attack]

The Netbeans form editor uses parameterless constructors for all components.
I don't think there is any way around this.

I want to use a JFormattedTextField and have it set to use a specific format.
If I wasn't using the form editor I would do something like this:

NumberFormat percentFormat = NumberFormat.getNumberInstance();
percentFormat.setMinimumFractionDigits(3);
myFormattedTextField = new JFormattedTextField( percentFormat );

How can I do the same thing with the JFormattedTextField created by the form?
I've looked at setFormatter and setFormatterFactory but they have me completely
confused.

Thanks

 

[Christophe Vanfleteren]

The Netbeans form editor uses parameterless constructors for all
components. I don't think there is any way around this.

I want to use a JFormattedTextField and have it set to use a specific
format. If I wasn't using the form editor I would do something like this:

NumberFormat percentFormat = NumberFormat.getNumberInstance();
percentFormat.setMinimumFractionDigits(3);
myFormattedTextField = new JFormattedTextField( percentFormat );

How can I do the same thing with the JFormattedTextField created by the
form? I've looked at setFormatter and setFormatterFactory but they have me
completely confused.

Thanks

Select the JFormattedTextField in the gui designer.
Then go to the "code generation" tab of the properties panel.
Select the "custom creation code" field.
Type "new JFormattedTextField( percentFormat );" (without the quotes
ofcourse) in the field.

You can also set the Numberformat part in the
"pre-creation code" field.