jTextArea as IO console

Question

How do I send the input of the user, user input only, to the outputstream?

I\'m currently using a keylistner,

jTextArea console = new jTextArea;
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Answer 1

I would suggest that when any other key is released, if starflag = true you store the start, and set startflag to false as you said, and when "enter" is actually pressed, you can do startflag = true; and store the end as the getCaretPosition().

My understanding of your intentions beyond that is slightly vague, but here are my ideas: If you have an entire "conversation" of sorts going on in your console, and you want ALL of the user entries, then you could simply use an ArrayList userinputs, and instead of start = console.getCaretPosition(), you could do userinputs.add(new Point(console.getCaretPosition(),-1)); and then when the user ends his input(or before STDOUT sends input), do userinputs.get(userinputs.size()-1).y = console.getCaretPosition()(Or you could store a temporary point, and only add the point upon it's completion - when it get an end as well.)

If you are sending the user input to the output whenever the enter key is pressed, then I don't see what more is needed than the simple code above, that essentially works like this:

public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e){
if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_ENTER){
    startflag = true;
    //Just get the text from the start(stored below), and up until where the caret is now, as the users output.
}else{
    if(startflag){
         start = console.getCaretPosition()
         startflag = false;
    }
}
}