Press ENTER and ignit activate the button

[Peter Primrose]

Hi all,

Say I have a text field (search) and a button ("Get It"). the user simply put info in the jtextfield and intuitively he presses ENTER to proceed. how do i do that?

I tried getIt.getRootPane().setDefaultButton(getIt); but i get a
java.lang.NullPointerException

I don't know how to get the root frame :-(

any idea how to solve it?
thanks

[Gregg Bolinger]

One way is to add an actionListener to your JTextField and have it call the same method your JButton's actionListener calls.