MaskedTextField for Vaadin

This component is listed on Vaadin Library

It is fully compatible with the OSGI architecture of Vaadin 7

Usage

Overview of currently available masks:

# - any digit
U - upper-case letter
L - lower-case letter
? - any letter
A - any number or character
* - anything
H - hex sign (0-9, a-f or A-F)
' - Escape character, used to escape any of the special formatting characters.
~ - +/- sign

Any character not matching one of the above mask character or if it escaped with the single quote character (') is considered to be a literal.

Some mask examples:

Phone Number: (###) ###-####
USPS Express Mail: EU#########'US
Date / time: ##/##/#### ##:##
State: UU
HTML Color: '#HHHHHH
An capitalized 6 letter word: ULLLLL

TODO

• setValidChars(",. ")
• Create an tab "try it" to allow the Demo App user to specify the mask and see the mask applied in real-time.
• Deploy demo app somewhere

Known issues:

• Issues

Roadmap

• Support for left aligned input with 0 filling.
• Currency and thousand separators

Changelog

• 30th June 2011 (tag 0.1.2)
• tab key press corrected
• cursor is positioned in first position allowed when field is focused.