Question

I need to do this: Value Change Listener to JTextField

I’m trying the solution of Condemwnci, but I’m getting that error in the line:
textField.getDocument().addDocumentListener(new DocumentListener()
that in my case is:
jtxtfBuscarInv.getDocument().addDocumentListener(new DocumentListener()

In my case I want update rows in a Jtable, so my method will be this:
ordenador.setRowFilter(RowFilter.regexFilter(jtxtfBuscarInv.getText(), 0));

I’m on linux, ubuntu 11.10, using Eclipse if that matters.

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Edit:

I don’t understand why, but it works in next way:

textField.getDocument().addDocumentListener(this);

and then overrride the implements methods, instead of doing all in the same lines.

Answer 1

The two approaches to adding a DocumentListener should be effectively identical. The example below lists all the listeners of type DocumentListener.class for each event. The obvious one is DocumentListeners itself, while the anonymous inner class has the (implementation dependent) name DocumentListeners$1. Both implement the DocumentListener interface. The others are part of typical text component maintenance. Note that two copies are shown, one from each listener added.

Console:

javax.swing.text.JTextComponent$InputMethodRequestsHandler@5090d8ea
DocumentListeners$1@559113f8
DocumentListeners[,0,0,128x38,layout=java.awt.FlowLayout,alignmentX=0.0,alignmentY=0.0,border=,flags=9,maximumSize=,minimumSize=,preferredSize=]
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI$UpdateHandler@27b62aab
javax.swing.text.DefaultCaret$Handler@28ab54eb

javax.swing.text.JTextComponent$InputMethodRequestsHandler@5090d8ea
DocumentListeners$1@559113f8
DocumentListeners[,0,0,128x38,layout=java.awt.FlowLayout,alignmentX=0.0,alignmentY=0.0,border=,flags=9,maximumSize=,minimumSize=,preferredSize=]
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI$UpdateHandler@27b62aab
javax.swing.text.DefaultCaret$Handler@28ab54eb

Code:

import java.awt.EventQueue;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.event.DocumentEvent;
import javax.swing.event.DocumentListener;
import javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument;

/** @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8283067 */
public class DocumentListeners extends JPanel implements DocumentListener {

    JTextField jtf = new JTextField("StackOverflow!");

    public DocumentListeners() {
        this.add(jtf);
        jtf.getDocument().addDocumentListener(this);
        jtf.getDocument().addDocumentListener(new DocumentListener() {

            @Override
            public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
                print(e);
            }

            @Override
            public void removeUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
                print(e);
            }

            @Override
            public void changedUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
                print(e);
            }
        });
    }

    private void print(DocumentEvent e) {
        AbstractDocument ad = (AbstractDocument) jtf.getDocument();
        for (DocumentListener dl : ad.getListeners(DocumentListener.class)) {
            System.out.println(dl);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
        print(e);
    }

    @Override
    public void removeUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
        print(e);
    }

    @Override
    public void changedUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
        print(e);
    }

    private void display() {
        JFrame f = new JFrame("DocumentListeners");
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.add(this);
        f.pack();
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                new DocumentListeners().display();
            }
        });
    }
}