Question

I have a JTextField and I’m using it to put info into a JTextArea. I want a command that puts text into it, but I’m having to use split to check if it’s the /text command. When I do “/text Message To Put”, it cuts off at the spaces. How can I get the “Message to put” as a whole to output to the JTextArea?

Answer 1

You can do something similar to the following to parse the text that is in the JTextField.

String messageToPut = jTextField.GetText();
if (messageToPut.startsWith("/text ")) {
    messageToPut = 
       messageToPut.substring("/text ".length()).trim();
}

The above just looks to see if the text starts with /text and, if if does, it trims the /text off of the beginning and leaves you with only the message.