Disable enter/return key in JTextArea

[applewood13]

Hello, im working on a project where i ask people to type an announcement into a textarea and it saves it to a datafile, but if you click the enter key it moves down to the next line and when it saves it to my datafile it corrupts it, so i wanted to make it so they cant click enter and start a new line. i was wondering if there is a simple way of just disabling it or if i need an keylistener and if so then how would i go about doing that?

Thanks :(rofl):

[littledrummerboy]

Yup, just use the setEnabled method like so..

JTextArea sample = new JTextArea();
sample.setEditable(false);

[DarrylBurke]

Set a DocumentFilter that doesn't pass "\n" or use the approach outlined in camickr's Single Line Text Area.

db

[applewood13]

Thank you Darryl! that worked perfectly, exactly what i was looking for (y)