Value Change Listener to JTextField

Question

I want the message box to appear immediately after the user changes the value in the textfield. Currently, I need to hit the enter key to get the message box to pop out. Is

Answer 1

DocumentFilter ? It gives you the ability to manipulate.

[ http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/0240__Swing/FormatJTextFieldstexttouppercase.htm ]

Sorry. J am using Jython (Python in Java) - but easy to understand

# python style
# upper chars [ text.upper() ]

class myComboBoxEditorDocumentFilter( DocumentFilter ):
def __init__(self,jtext):
    self._jtext = jtext

def insertString(self,FilterBypass_fb, offset, text, AttributeSet_attrs):
    txt = self._jtext.getText()
    print('DocumentFilter-insertString:',offset,text,'old:',txt)
    FilterBypass_fb.insertString(offset, text.upper(), AttributeSet_attrs)

def replace(self,FilterBypass_fb, offset, length, text, AttributeSet_attrs):
    txt = self._jtext.getText()
    print('DocumentFilter-replace:',offset, length, text,'old:',txt)
    FilterBypass_fb.replace(offset, length, text.upper(), AttributeSet_attrs)

def remove(self,FilterBypass_fb, offset, length):
    txt = self._jtext.getText()
    print('DocumentFilter-remove:',offset, length, 'old:',txt)
    FilterBypass_fb.remove(offset, length)

// (java style ~example for ComboBox-jTextField)
cb = new ComboBox();
cb.setEditable( true );
cbEditor = cb.getEditor();
cbEditorComp = cbEditor.getEditorComponent();
cbEditorComp.getDocument().setDocumentFilter(new myComboBoxEditorDocumentFilter(cbEditorComp));