I'm trying to set up a GUI for a program of mine, and have got it mostly working. However, I would like to be able to create a method that works a lot like Scanner's nextLine(); it waits for the input from my JTextField, and then returns it. It seemed like this question was very similar to mine but did not wait for the user's input. Here is my GUI's current code:
package util;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import com.jgoodies.forms.factories.DefaultComponentFactory;
public class Gui {
public JFrame frame;
private JTextField textField;
private final JLabel lblVector = DefaultComponentFactory.getInstance().createTitle("Please type commands below.");
private JScrollPane scrollPane;
private JTextArea textArea;
/**
* Create the application.
*/
public Gui() {
initialize();
}
/**
* Initialize the contents of the frame.
*/
public void print(String text){
textArea.append(text+"\n");
}
public String getInput()
{
String input = textField.getText();
textField.setCaretPosition(0);
return input;
}
private void initialize() {
frame = new JFrame("Vector");
frame.setBounds(100, 100, 720, 720);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
textField = new JTextField();
frame.getContentPane().add(textField, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
textField.setColumns(10);
frame.getContentPane().add(lblVector, BorderLayout.NORTH);
scrollPane = new JScrollPane();
frame.getContentPane().add(scrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
textArea = new JTextArea();
textArea.setFont(new Font("Monospaced", Font.PLAIN, 15));
textArea.setEditable(false);
scrollPane.setViewportView(textArea);
}
}
I'd like to be able to call it like so:
String menus = gui.getInput();
or such; I've already set up the gui variable as a new Gui().
From my searches, I've gathered it would probably involve either a DocumentListener, or an ActionListener, or both.