Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * JLibs: Common Utilities for Java * Copyright (C) 2009 Santhosh Kumar T <santhosh.tekuri@gmail.com> * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. */ import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; public class Main { /** * Programmatically perform action on textfield.This does the same * thing as if the user had pressed enter key in textfield. * * @param textField textField on which action to be preformed */ public static void doAction(JTextField textField) { String command = null; if (textField.getAction() != null) command = (String) textField.getAction().getValue(Action.ACTION_COMMAND_KEY); ActionEvent event = null; for (ActionListener listener : textField.getActionListeners()) { if (event == null) event = new ActionEvent(textField, ActionEvent.ACTION_PERFORMED, command, System.currentTimeMillis(), 0); listener.actionPerformed(event); } } }