getting action from field without pressing enter

[Kate Zoy]

I have some JTextFields and I want to be able to capture user action without relying on the user to press enter. most people I see using my program fill in the fields and move on to the next one without pressing enter at each one. And I don't want to put in a button. Can i get the action to kick in just by the user typing in a value?
Thanks!

[Gregg Bolinger]

You can create a FocusListener for the JTextFields and then on something like focusLost() do whatever you need to do.

[Kate Zoy]

Thanks, that helps alot. Although now I get an error:
Board.handler is not abstract and does not override abstract method focusGained(java.awt.event.FocusEvent) in java.awt.event.FocusListener
And here's a bit of code...

  
textField1.addFocusListener( new handler() );
.
.
.
}//end of method containt the fields.addFocusListener...
private class handler implements FocusListener
{
     public void focusLost( FocusEvent fe )
     {
     }
}//end of inner handler class
}//end of class

[Gregg Bolinger]

When implementing an interface you are required to override all public methods that exist in the interface. For FocusListener there is focusGained() and focusLost(). You don't have to do anything in either method, but you have to at least implement the method itself.
I use the MouseListener interface a lot and it has 4 methods you have to implement. I usually only use 1 of them, so the other ones just all sit there empty.
[ April 26, 2004: Message edited by: Gregg Bolinger ]

[Helen Crosbie]

You can get round this by using the FocusAdapter class. This implements the FocusListener for you, but with empty methods.
This means you just need to subclass it and write the methods that you're interested in.

[Helen Crosbie]

You can get round this by using the FocusAdapter class. This implements the FocusListener for you, but with empty methods.
This means you just need to subclass it and write the methods that you're interested in.