Name: rk38400			Date: 05/20/98


Registering a keyListener for the JTextField
component, and defining the keyTyped method
for that interface one can quickly see that
the keyTyped event is fired BEFORE the char
is added to the JTextField. It should be
called after the character has been added.
This is still the case under Swing-1.0.2.
The following simple example shows this.

/* ---------------------- */

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import com.sun.java.swing.*;

public class test extends JFrame {
  JTextField tf;

  public test()
  {
    getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
    tf = new JTextField(30);
    getContentPane().add(tf);
    tf.addKeyListener(new keyboardHandler());
    setSize(200,100);
  }

  class keyboardHandler extends KeyAdapter
  {
    public void keyTyped(KeyEvent event) {
      System.out.println(tf.getText().length());
    }
  }

  public static void main(String [] args)
  {
    (new test()).show();
  }
}
(Review ID: 30689)
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