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"Paul Furbacher [TeamB]" <pnf@home.com> wrote in message
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> Forum Borland wrote:
> >
> > when using a swing jdbNavcombobox i want to use some events attached to
the
> > this component.
> > the keylistener events Keypressed,keyTyped, keyReleased Dont fire when
> > typing in the box.
> > i have tried making my own eventhandlers (keylistener) and adding it to
the
> > jdbnavcombobox, since components can fire events to several
eventhandlers
> > but that dont work either.
> >
> > maybe swing overides the event somehow since its used in the
functionality
> > of the component or????
>
> My guess is that since JComboBox, from which JdbNavComboBox extends (via
> another class or two), is a compound component, consisting of an editor
> and a list (did I forget something else?), you have to reach into
> this compound component and add listeners to the desired component.
>
> In this case, it would be the editor.  So, you'd write something like
> the following (I might be a little off since I don't have a Swing
> reference in front of me):
>
>   // given a JdbComboBox cb
>
>   JTextField tf = (JTextField)cb.getEditor().getEditorComponent();
>   tf.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() {...});
>   tf.addKeyListener(...);
>
>
> Paul Furbacher (TeamB)