For new Java programmers, the JOptionPane class is a great visual and user-friendly introduction to user input and Swing-based programming. Here's how to get started.

Using Java and the swing framework, provide example code for handling a text field with a single character input. Provide filters for the character inputs to restrict values to 1-9 and " ".

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