Text box count

how can i take a count of how many characters there are in a text box(constantly), i orignially thought well just have the keypressed event handler too add the value 1 to a counter but then i thought about cut and paste...plz help

your answer did work but now i have another question with the answer:
what is wrong in this:
short c;
c = 1000 / textArea2.getText().length();
i might not be including everything?
error output = "possible loss of precision int, required short"

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Hi hlolrich,
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