JFormattedTextField creating spaces in field

Question

Hi, I am working with a JFormattedTextField, I am using the tutorial from Sun, but once the text field is created it already has spaces put in the field. I tried using setText and it still has them either way.
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import javax.swing.JFormattedTextField;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.text.MaskFormatter;
public class test extends JFrame {
     private JTextField InputLoc;
     // I have also set InputLoc to be a JFormattedTextField
     Container mainWindow;
     public test() {
          makeInput();
          mainWindow = getContentPane();
          mainWindow.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
          mainWindow.add(InputLoc);
     private void makeInput() {
          InputLoc = new JFormattedTextField(createFormatter("###########"));
          InputLoc.setText("");
     protected MaskFormatter createFormatter(String s) {
          MaskFormatter formatter = null;
          try {
               formatter = new MaskFormatter(s);
          } catch (java.text.ParseException exc) {
               System.err.println("formatter is bad: " + exc.getMessage());
               System.exit(-1);
          return formatter;
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          test gui = new test();
          gui.setSize(80, 80);
          gui.setVisible(true);
}The code should compile and will show you what is going on. Please let me know what the problem is.
thanks
Joe

Answer 1

Please let me know what the problem is. I don't know what the problem is, because I can't tell from your description how you expect that code to behave. The code is doing what you tell it to do, so if you want it to do something different, we'll need to understand what that something is...
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