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well with a mouse listener you can't use event.isMetaDown() or event.isAltDown()? or whatever to tell if they are clicking on the field? or even use cordinates to make sure if they click in the right...

Wouldn't that work for what your trying to do?

So I checked my book and it looks like you can do a KeyListener for the frame..



import java.awt.event.*;

addKeyListener( this );


public void keyPressed(KeyEvent event)

I'm curious how to do this as well. I'd like it if you could just auto-update simply because new text was put into the field at all.