JTextField & Keylistener

[Roberto Frosi]

Ciao,
problem:
I added the KeyListener to my JTextField and when insert a text and I confirm, it triggers an event programmed by me. So everything is right. But if I do the setText ("Hello"); course it breaks loose keyPressed event

myTextField.addKeyListener(new KeyListener(){
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_ENTER){
...

how do I invoke the KeyEvent with the setText?

[Darryl Burke]

Hi Robert, and welcome to the Ranch!

For the purpose you describe, you should be using a DocumentListener or a Document Filter -- not a KeyListener.

[Rob Camick]

Also don't listen for the Enter key. Instead you should add an ActionListener to the text field.

[Roberto Frosi]

have you an example?

[Darryl Burke]

Have you come across this tutorial? Various sections of it are linked from tha API documentation of just about any Swing class.
Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing

There's a ton of example code there.