Text Changed event in JTextArea? How to?

Question

I have been trying to make a text changed event handling mechanism for my JTextArea. For my purposes an event has to be fired whenever there is a change in the

Answer 1

I would get the JTextArea's Document via getDocument() (a PlainDocument actually) and use a DocumentListener to listen for changes. This way you'd capture changes from key strokes and also from copy/paste/cut events.