How do you simulate a click on a JTextField? Equivalent of JButton doClick()?

Question

I am working on a Java project and need to have a keypress simulate a click on a JTextField. What I'm looking for is the equivalent of the JButton doClick() method.

I am trying to have the keypress "enter" perform the exact same function as a click on the JTextField.

Not sure what other info to provide. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

OK, thanks for the help. I guess I wasn't being clear, but I have now discovered a way to make my code work thanks to some of your ideas.

I had already thought of just creating a private method that was called by both functions, but part of the code needs to know which JTextField the user is clicked on. I discovered .getFocusOwner(), which allows me to reference the current item with Focus (the JTextField). Something like this

    public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
        if(e.getKeyCode()==KeyEvent.VK_ENTER) {
            Object which = JFrame.getFocusOwner();                
            if(which.getClass() == JTextField.class)
                foo(which);
         }
    }

    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {                
        Object which = e.getSource();
        if(which.getClass()== JTextField.class) {
            foo(which);
        }
    }

There was probably a better way to do this, but basically I had an array of JTextFields and the program was functioning properly when users clicked on the next JTextField, but when pressing enter I didn't know how to call the JTextField that was just entered so I wanted to simulate a click on the JTextField (which calls for focus). I guess I should have just explained my whole problem.

Thank you.