How to make an image move while listening to a keypress in Java.

Yep, a Swing Timer and Key Bindings would work well. Here’s another example (mine) 🙂 import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import javax.swing.*; public class AnimationWithKeyBinding { private static void createAndShowUI() { AnimationPanel panel = new AnimationPanel(); // the drawing JPanel JFrame frame = new JFrame(“Animation With Key Binding”); frame.getContentPane().add(panel); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.pack(); frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null); frame.setVisible(true); } … Read more

UITextField text change event

From proper way to do uitextfield text change call back: I catch the characters sent to a UITextField control something like this: // Add a “textFieldDidChange” notification method to the text field control. In Objective-C: [textField addTarget:self action:@selector(textFieldDidChange:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventEditingChanged]; In Swift: textField.addTarget(self, action: #selector(textFieldDidChange), for: .editingChanged) Then in the textFieldDidChange method you can examine the … Read more

How to debug JavaScript / jQuery event bindings with Firebug or similar tools?

See How to find event listeners on a DOM node. In a nutshell, assuming at some point an event handler is attached to your element (eg): $(‘#foo’).click(function() { console.log(‘clicked!’) }); You inspect it like so: jQuery 1.3.x var clickEvents = $(‘#foo’).data(“events”).click; jQuery.each(clickEvents, function(key, value) { console.log(value) // prints “function() { console.log(‘clicked!’) }” }) jQuery 1.4.x … Read more

Do event handlers stop garbage collection from occurring?

For the specific question “Will pClass be garbage collected”: the event subscription has no effect on the collection of pClass (as the publisher). For GC in general (in particular, the target): it depends whether MyFunction is static or instance-based. A delegate (such as an event subscription) to an instance method includes a reference to the … Read more