How to send data from a JTextField to a JList?

Question

I have integrated a form to store the data from a JTextField to a variable after a user enters something and presses a JButton. My issue is that I want to send this data to a JList every time they type something in and hit the submit button.

How is this possible?

Answer 1

Add an ActionListener to the instance of the JButton, get the content of the JTextField (say with name aTextField), and store it to a list (say you have a class member JList dataInputted )

button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
            {
                // Execute when button is pressed
                dataInputted.addElement(aTextField.getText());
            }
        });