Problems with the Scanner class and the decimal point

Question

I'm creating a GUI so to get the user input (double value) I use a jText field and the Scanner to read that value:
private void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                                        
        String time = jTextTime.getText();
       double t = new Scanner(time).nextDouble();
        String cy = Double.toString(t);
        jTextCycles.setText(cy);
    }                                  The problem is that the decimal point it's a comma so if I write:
1.2
t = (Error InputMismatchException)
1.236
t = 1236.0
1,2
t = 1.2
So I try using the parse method to get the double value:
private void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                                        
        String time = jTextTime.getText();
       double t = Double.parseDouble(time);
        String cy = Double.toString(t);
        jTextCycles.setText(cy);
    }                            In this case the method parseDouble() takes the dot as the decimal point so if i write:
1.2
t = 1.2
1.236
t = 1.236
1,2
t = (Error InputMismatchException)
� What can I do to Scanner class to accept the dot as the decimal point?
I think that the problem is becouse in some countries (I'm from Colombia) the decimal point is a comma and in others is the dot.
Thanks

Answer 1

From the Javadocs for Scanner:
Localized numbers
An instance of this class is capable of scanning numbers in the standard formats as well as in the formats of the scanner's locale. A scanner's initial locale is the value returned by the Locale.getDefault() method; it may be changed via the useLocale(java.util.Locale) method.
If you change your locale to one of those that does use a comma for a decimal point, it should work.