ComboBox + Listeners = Confused

[CharlesCVA]

I have a ComboBox that is Editable. This allows user to select existing values, or type their own. The idea is that as you type a regular expression into the Combobox... A preview of the text your regular expression is capturing is displayed for you on the fly.

I was able to do this with KeyListener. HOWEVER....When the selected index is programmatically changed my KeyListener is not fired, and the update does not happen.

If user selects value from list, it is okay because i can catch that with ActionListener. But this means that with KeyListener... i will have to have more than one type of listener doing the same job!

I was hoping to use PropertyChangeListener to "monitor" the text in the ComboBox.... perhaps the ComboBox.getEditor() component should have a PropertyChangeListener???

I would like to use just one listener for this task. if this doesn't make sense, please ask and i will try to clarify further.

Please advise.

THANKS IN ADVANCED,

CHARLES