Document listener can catch line return?

Question

I have the following DocumentListener (implemented in MyInputListener) in a JPanel where I process each character as it's typed in by the user from the insertUpdate() method. But the one character I can't seem to get is the enter key. It's like the JTextField is capturing that for itself and not passing this on to my DocumentListener.
Anyone have ideas on how to get around that?
myField = new JTextField();
MyInputListener listener = new MyInputListener();
myField.getDocument().addDocumentListener(listener);
public class MyInputListener implements DocumentListener {
     public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent de) {
          // never falls here or in any of the other xUpdate() methods.

Answer 1

JTextField is designed to work with a single line of text, so it filters out linefeeds before any listeners get fired. If you're working with multiline text, you should be using a JTextArea, not a JTextField.