JFC Swing Tutorial, The: A Guide to Constructing GUIs

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/events/index.html The following sections give details about implementing specific kinds of event listeners. While we don't have a how-to section for every single kind of event...

Action listeners are probably the easiest—and most common—event handlers to implement. You implement an action listener to respond to the user's indication that some implementation-dependent...

Caret events occur when the caret—the cursor indicating the insertion point—in a text component moves or when the selection in a text component changes (see...

A change listener is similar to a property-change listener. A change listener is registered on an object—typically a component, but it could be another object,...

One or more component events are fired by a Component object just after the component is hidden, made visible, moved, or resized. An example of...

Container events are fired by a Container just after a component is added to or removed from the container. These events are for notification only—no...

A Swing text component uses a Document[7] to hold and edit its text. Document events occur when the content of a document changes in any...

Focus events are fired whenever a component gains or loses the keyboard focus. This is true whether the change in focus occurs through the mouse,...

An InternalFrameListener[11] is similar to a WindowListener. Like the window listener, the internal frame listener listens for events that occur when the "window" has been...

Item events are fired by components that implement the ItemSelectable interface.[15] Generally, ItemSelectable components maintain on/off state for one or more items. The Swing components...

Key events tell you when the user is typing at the keyboard. Specifically, key events are fired by the component with the keyboard focus when...

List data events occur when the contents of a mutable list change. Since the model—not the component—fires these events, you have to register a list...

List selection events occur when the selection in a list or table is either changing or has just changed. The events are fired from an...

Mouse events tell you when the user uses the mouse (or similar input device) to interact with a component. Mouse events occur when the cursor...

Mouse-motion events tell you when the user uses the mouse (or a similar input device) to move the onscreen cursor. For information on listening for...

Mouse wheel events tell you when the wheel on the mouse rotates. For information on listening to other mouse events, such as clicks, see How...

Property-change events occur whenever the value of a bound property changes for a bean—a component that conforms to the JavaBeansTM specification.[32] All Swing components are...

Each JTable object has a table model that holds its data. When a table model listener is registered on the table model, the listener is...

Sometimes when using a tree,[33] you might need to react when a branch becomes expanded or collapsed. For example, you might need to load or...

By implementing a tree model listener, you can detect when the data displayed by a tree changes. You might use a tree model listener to...

To detect when the user selects a node in a tree, you need to register a tree selection listener. Here's an example, taken from the...

As explained in How to Write a Tree Expansion Listener (page 710), you can use a tree-will-expand listener to prevent a tree node from expanding...

Undoable edit events occur when an operation that can be undone occurs on a component. Currently only text components fire undoable edit events, and then...

This section explains how to implement three kinds of window-related event handlers: WindowListener, WindowFocusListener, and WindowStateListener. All three handle WindowEvents. The methods in all three...