I'm working on a small GUI application where I'm supposed to open a text document in a JTextPane. It's working fine except that when I add a DocumentListener to my JTextPane, the listener's not being called.
Here's the SSCE:
//GUI.java
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;
class GUI
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
final JFrame frame = new JFrame("Frame");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
final JTabbedPane Tab = new JTabbedPane();
JMenuBar MenuBar = new JMenuBar();
JMenu File = new JMenu("File");
File.setMnemonic('F');
JMenuItem Open = new JMenuItem("Open");
File.add(Open);
MenuBar.add(File);
Open.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent eaal)
{
JFileChooser fc = new JFileChooser(".");
int response = fc.showOpenDialog(frame);
try{
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fc.getSelectedFile())));
JTextPane Text = new JTextPane();
Text.getDocument().addDocumentListener(new DocumentChangeListener());
Text.read(reader,null);
Tab.add(fc.getSelectedFile().toString(), Text);
}
catch(Exception ea)
{}
}
});
frame.add(Tab);
frame.setJMenuBar(MenuBar);
frame.setSize(450,450);
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
//DocumentChangeListener.java
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
class DocumentChangeListener implements DocumentListener
{
public void changedUpdate(DocumentEvent edcl){}
public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent edcl)
{
System.out.println("Inserted");
}
public void removeUpdate(DocumentEvent edcl){}
}
What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks!
read
creates a new Document for the JTextComponent
so addDocumentListener
needs to be called after calling it rather than before
text.read(reader, null);
text.getDocument().addDocumentListener(new DocumentChangeListener());