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Easiest way to check for change of textField content?

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paulbradley

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I want to perform some actions upon the edit of a the content of a textField. Is a documentListner the easiest way? I've looked at these and they seem a bit complex.
 
I think a DocumentListener is your best bet. You should be able to detect actual 'edit' type actions by the user. If you less demanding in what you interpret as an 'edit', then a combination of KeyListener and MouseListener might be easier to figure, but they would fire when anything happens inside the field, whether anything was changed or not.

Tim
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destroys the lives you're using." - Ozzy
 
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