Allowing the “Enter” key to press the submit button, as opposed to only using MouseClick

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There is a simple trick for this. After you constructed the frame with all it buttons do this:

frame.getRootPane().setDefaultButton(submitButton);

For each frame, you can set a default button that will automatically listen to the Enter key (and maybe some other event’s I’m not aware of). When you hit enter in that frame, the ActionListeners their actionPerformed() method will be invoked.

And the problem with your code as far as I see is that your dialog pops up every time you hit a key, because you didn’t put it in the if-body. Try changing it to this:

@Override
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
    if (e.getKeyCode()==KeyEvent.VK_ENTER){
        System.out.println("Hello");

        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null , "You've Submitted the name " + nameInput.getText());
    }

}

UPDATE: I found what is wrong with your code. You are adding the key listener to the Submit button instead of to the TextField. Change your code to this:

SubmitButton listener = new SubmitButton(textBoxToEnterName);
textBoxToEnterName.addActionListener(listener);
submit.addKeyListener(listener);

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