JTextFieldLimit.java

package jav.gui.main;

import javax.swing.text.AttributeSet;
import javax.swing.text.BadLocationException;
import javax.swing.text.PlainDocument;

/**
 *Copyright (c) 2012, IMPACT working group at the Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung, University of Munich.
 *All rights reserved.

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 * 
 * This file is part of the ocr-postcorrection tool developed
 * by the IMPACT working group at the Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung, University of Munich.
 * For further information and contacts visit http://ocr.cis.uni-muenchen.de/
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 * @author thorsten (thorsten.vobl@googlemail.com)
 */
public class JTextFieldLimit extends PlainDocument {
    private int limit;
    // optional uppercase conversion
    private boolean toUppercase = false;
    
    public JTextFieldLimit(int limit) {
        super();
        this.limit = limit;
    }
    
    public JTextFieldLimit(int limit, boolean upper) {
        super();
        this.limit = limit;
        toUppercase = upper;
    }
    
    @Override
    public void insertString
            (int offset, String  str, AttributeSet attr)
            throws BadLocationException {
        if (str == null) return;
        
        if ((getLength() + str.length()) <= limit) {
            if (toUppercase) str = str.toUpperCase();
            super.insertString(offset, str, attr);
        }
    }
}