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Trail: Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing
Lesson: Writing Event Listeners

Summary of Listener API

In the table that follows, the first column gives the name of the listener interface, with either a link to the tutorial page that discusses the listener or, if the tutorial doesn't discuss the listener, a link to the API docs. The second column names the corresponding adapter class, if any. (For a discussion of using adapters, see Using Adapters and Inner Classes to Handle Events.) The third column lists the methods that the listener interface contains and shows the type of the event object passed into the method. Typically, the listener, the adapter, and the event type have the same name prefix, but this is not always the case.

To see which Swing components can fire which kinds of events, see Listeners Supported by Swing Components.

Listener Interface Adapter Class Listener Methods
ActionListener none actionPerformed(ActionEvent)
AncestorListener(in the API reference documentation) none ancestorAdded(AncestorEvent)
ancestorMoved(AncestorEvent)
ancestorRemoved(AncestorEvent)
CaretListener none caretUpdate(CaretEvent)
CellEditorListener(in the API reference documentation) none editingStopped(ChangeEvent)
editingCanceled(ChangeEvent)
ChangeListener none stateChanged(ChangeEvent)
ComponentListener ComponentAdapter componentHidden(ComponentEvent)
componentMoved(ComponentEvent)
componentResized(ComponentEvent)
componentShown(ComponentEvent)
ContainerListener ContainerAdapter componentAdded(ContainerEvent)
componentRemoved(ContainerEvent)
DocumentListener none changedUpdate(DocumentEvent)
insertUpdate(DocumentEvent)
removeUpdate(DocumentEvent)
FocusListener FocusAdapter focusGained(FocusEvent)
focusLost(FocusEvent)
HyperlinkListener(in the API reference documentation) none hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent)
InternalFrameListener InternalFrameAdapter internalFrameActivated(InternalFrameEvent)
internalFrameClosed(InternalFrameEvent)
internalFrameClosing(InternalFrameEvent)
internalFrameDeactivated(InternalFrameEvent)
internalFrameDeiconified(InternalFrameEvent)
internalFrameIconified(InternalFrameEvent)
internalFrameOpened(InternalFrameEvent)
ItemListener none itemStateChanged(ItemEvent)
KeyListener KeyAdapter keyPressed(KeyEvent)
keyReleased(KeyEvent)
keyTyped(KeyEvent)
ListDataListener none contentsChanged(ListDataEvent)
intervalAdded(ListDataEvent)
intervalRemoved(ListDataEvent)
ListSelectionListener none valueChanged(ListSelectionEvent)
MenuDragMouseListener(in the API reference documentation) none menuDragMouseDragged(MenuDragMouseEvent)
menuDragMouseEntered(MenuDragMouseEvent)
menuDragMouseExited(MenuDragMouseEvent)
menuDragMouseReleased(MenuDragMouseEvent)
MenuKeyListener(in the API reference documentation) none menuKeyPressed(MenuKeyEvent)
menuKeyReleased(MenuKeyEvent)
menuKeyTyped(MenuKeyEvent)
MenuListener(in the API reference documentation) none menuCanceled(MenuEvent)
menuDeselected(MenuEvent)
menuSelected(MenuEvent)
MouseInputListener(in the API reference documentation) MouseInputAdapter mouseClicked(MouseEvent)
mouseEntered(MouseEvent)
mouseExited(MouseEvent)
mousePressed(MouseEvent)
mouseReleased(MouseEvent)
mouseDragged(MouseEvent)
mouseMoved(MouseEvent)
MouseListener MouseAdapter mouseClicked(MouseEvent)
mouseEntered(MouseEvent)
mouseExited(MouseEvent)
mousePressed(MouseEvent)
mouseReleased(MouseEvent)
MouseMotionListener MouseMotionAdapter mouseDragged(MouseEvent)
mouseMoved(MouseEvent)
PopupMenuListener(in the API reference documentation) none popupMenuCanceled(PopupMenuEvent)
popupMenuWillBecomeInvisible(PopupMenuEvent)
popupMenuWillBecomeVisible(PopupMenuEvent)
TableColumnModelListener(in the API reference documentation) none columnAdded(TableColumnModelEvent)
columnMoved(TableColumnModelEvent)
columnRemoved(TableColumnModelEvent)
columnMarginChanged(ChangeEvent)
columnSelectionChanged(ListSelectionEvent)
TableModelListener none tableChanged(TableModelEvent)
TreeExpansionListener none treeCollapsed(TreeExpansionEvent)
treeExpanded(TreeExpansionEvent)
TreeModelListener none treeNodesChanged(TreeModelEvent)
treeNodesInserted(TreeModelEvent)
treeNodesRemoved(TreeModelEvent)
treeStructureChanged(TreeModelEvent)
TreeSelectionListener none valueChanged(TreeSelectionEvent)
TreeWillExpandListener none treeWillCollapse(TreeExpansionEvent)
treeWillExpand(TreeExpansionEvent)
UndoableEditListener none undoableEditHappened(UndoableEditEvent)
WindowListener WindowAdapter windowActivated(WindowEvent)
windowClosed(WindowEvent)
windowClosing(WindowEvent)
windowDeactivated(WindowEvent)
windowDeiconified(WindowEvent)
windowIconified(WindowEvent)
windowOpened(WindowEvent)


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