Assigning multiple values from a JFormattedTextField to multiple variables

Question

If I had a JFormattedTextField like this

MaskFormatter formatter = new MaskFormatter("#,#");
JFormattedTextField textField = new JFormattedTextField(formatter);

and if I had variables

int x = 0;
int y = 0;

how can I store the first number in the textfield to x, and the second number to y?

Answer 1

Assuming the first & second numbers are those either side of the comma , in the JFormattedTextField, you could do:

String[] numbers = textField.getText().split(",");
int x = Integer.parseInt(numbers[0]);
int y = Integer.parseInt(numbers[1]);

Answer 2

The mask does not change how the inner value is stored, it just tells how to represent/input it.

So you still have a .getText() which returns a String in the format of your election. Process that String (split(), StringTokenizer) as you see fit.