How would I go about doing this?

[Collinryans]

I have a jTextField and a jButton. Normally what happens is user enters something in the jTextField and clicks the button and:

 private void jButtonEnterActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
}

is executed, as you would expect.

However what I want is, for the user to be able to simple press enter after putting something in the jTextField and

 private void jButtonEnterActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
}

will execute.

I am using Netbeans.

Previously I tried this:

I added

    private void jTextFieldInputKeyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {

        if(evt.getKeyCode() == 10) {
          
          
          // same as code jButtonEnterActionPerformed executed here.
         

        }
    }

However I would prefer not to do this is just repeating the same line of codes as another function, and I am sure there is a simpler method. So could someone point me to the right direction?

[PhHein]

public void actionPerfomed(ActionEvent e){
  doStuff();
}

private void jTextFieldInputKeyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {
  if(evt.getKeyCode() == 10) {        
    doStuff();
  }
}
private void doStuff(){
  //whatever
}

[Norm]

I'm not a Swing programmer, but I think there are Action items of some kind that you can bind to components to trap key presses.

Where is the jTextFieldInputKeyPressed method connected to anything? Is this an IDE thing?

[PhHein]

@Norm: you're thinking about key bindings, but in the end you'll end up having duplicate code unless you're calling a method from both places.

[alacn]

package chararray;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;



public class GUI extends JFrame {

    JButton jb;
    JTextField tf;

    public GUI(){

        super("Title");
        setLayout(new FlowLayout());


        jb = new JButton("button");
        add(jb);

        tf = new JTextField("",11);
        add(tf);


      jb.addActionListener(
              new ActionListener(){
                  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                        tf.setText("you pressed enter");
                   }
              }
      );

    }


}

making form visible from main class

package chararray;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        GUI form = new GUI();
        form.setVisible(true);
        form.setSize(200, 200);
    }
}

[pbrockway2]

Wouldn't using an Action instance eliminate the code duplication?

The button can be created with the constructor that takes an Action argument so that the action gets invoked when the button is clicked. And the text field's addActionListener() is called with the Action as an argument so that it gets invoked when <Enter> is typed into the field.

[Collinryans]

public void actionPerfomed(ActionEvent e){
  doStuff();
}

private void jTextFieldInputKeyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {
  if(evt.getKeyCode() == 10) {        
    doStuff();
  }
}
private void doStuff(){
  //whatever
}

This is great, it's currently what I'm using right now, thanks a lot.

Wouldn't using an Action instance eliminate the code duplication?

The button can be created with the constructor that takes an Action argument so that the action gets invoked when the button is clicked. And the text field's addActionListener() is called with the Action as an argument so that it gets invoked when <Enter> is typed into the field.

Exactly how is this done?

[camickr]

Exactly how is this done?

Read the section from the Swing tutorial on How to Use Actions.

Another option might be to create a default button for the frame:

frame.getRootPane().setDefaultButton(...);

[masijade]

All of this is a bit overboard, isn't it?

You can simply add an ActionListener to the JTextField

import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JTextField;

public class TestTextField {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		final JFrame jf = new JFrame();
		final JTextField jtf = new JTextField();
		jtf.addActionListener(
			new ActionListener() {
				public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
					JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(jf, jtf.getText());
				}
			});
		jf.getContentPane().add(jtf);
		jf.pack();
		jf.setVisible(true);
	}
}

Edit: Okay, I see pbrockway already mentioned this.

[rp.uh]

how about
jButton.doClick();

[Norm]

If you don't need the button pressed, call the actionPerformed() (or whatever method it calls) method directly.