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How to forbid the backspace in a JTextField?

user12076936Mar 19 2010 — edited Mar 20 2010
Hello,

I'm trying to write a JTextField KeyListener that basically consumes all backspaces, so that anything input by the user in the field cannot be cancelled. (The user doesn't setText()).

How can I do that? It seems like I cannot!

I've tried by identifying '\b' and consume the KeyEvent, but then the backspace is still executed.
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