gbfragoso / MaskedTextField

MaskedTextField is an component similar to JFormmatedText field and can be used in same way.

MaskedTextField

This component is very similar to JFormmatedText field and can be used in same way. Including the functionalites of copy|paste content, dinamically change placeholder and mask.

The following table shows the characters that you can use in the formatting mask:

Character	Description
#	Any valid number (Character.isDigit)
'	Escape character, used to escape any of the special formatting characters.
U	Any character (Character.isLetter). All lowercase letters are mapped to uppercase
L	Any character (Character.isLetter). All uppercase letters are mapped to lowercase
A	Any character or number (Character.isLetter or Character.isDigit)
?	Any character (Character.isLetter)
*	Anything
H	Any hex character (0-9, a-f or A-F)

Demonstration

Using in JavaFX code (without FXML)

// Created mask for phone with default placeholder "_"
MaskedTextField text = new MaskedTextField("(###)#####-####"); // Only Number

// Change placeholder to empty space
text.setPlaceHolder(' ');

// Change mask
text.setMask("((####))");

Using in FXML

<?import packagepath.MaskedTextField?>

<MaskedTextField mask="(###)#####-####" plainText="5555"/>

The available tags to use in FXML are: mask, placeholder and plainText;