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

You are comparing strings with ==

if (currentText == textString)

This will never be true. This compares if the strings are the same String object. You should use equals.

if (currentText.equals( textString) )

You might also want to check out DocumentListeners. See also this How do I compare strings in Java?