Detect enter press in JTextField

Question

Is it possible to detect when someone presses Enter while typing in a JTextField in java? Without having to create a button and set it as the default.

Answer 1

First add action command on JButton or JTextField by:

JButton.setActionCommand("name of command");
JTextField.setActionCommand("name of command");

Then add ActionListener to both JTextField and JButton.

JButton.addActionListener(listener);
JTextField.addActionListener(listener);

After that, On you ActionListener implementation write

@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
    String actionCommand = e.getActionCommand();

    if(actionCommand.equals("Your actionCommand for JButton") || actionCommand.equals("Your   actionCommand for press Enter"))
    {
        //Do something
    }
}