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In order to capture an event, you need to have an appropriate “event listener".

An event listener is an interface which specifies some event-handling methods for the particular type of event to be handled.

For example:

an ActionListener specifies the method:

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent <eventName>)

For a complete listing of the listeners and the methods

they require, refer to p.151 of Java in a Nutshell,

or the java.awt.event.* package.

Handling Events -- How