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freesoft_2000 - 07 Sep 2006 20:17 GMT

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know how do i detect that the backspace button
has been pressed by using the keylistener. What i mean is what do i put in
the keypressed method to know that the backspace button has been pressed?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thank You

Yours Sincerely

Richard West

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Oliver Wong - 07 Sep 2006 20:22 GMT

> Does anyone know how do i detect that the backspace button
> has been pressed by using the keylistener. What i mean is what do i put in
> the keypressed method to know that the backspace button has been pressed?

The same way you'd detect any other key event. Just register a listener
for the event, and when a keyPressed() event occurs, examine the event to
see if it involved the backspace key. The virtual key code for backspace is
VK_BACK_SPACE.
(http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/event/KeyEvent.html#VK_BACK_SPACE)

- Oliver

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mikeboggs - 08 Sep 2006 03:30 GMT

I believe you will be able to do this:

public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e)
{
if (e.getKeyCode()==e.VK_BACK_SPACE)
{
//do what you need to do
}
}

Should also work with VK_ENTER, VK_TAB as well, just for reference.

Hope this helps.

Michael Boggs

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