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+//
+// $Id: DocumentAdapter.java,v 1.1 2004/05/01 01:40:34 ray Exp $
+
+package com.samskivert.swing.event;
+
+import javax.swing.event.DocumentEvent;
+import javax.swing.event.DocumentListener;
+
+/**
+ * A DocumentAdapter for focusing DocumentListener events into a pinpoint
+ * of easy wonderosity.
+ * Or you can override each of the DocumentListener methods as you wish.
+ */
+public class DocumentAdapter implements DocumentListener
+{
+    /**
+     * A handy-dandy method you can override to just do *something* whenever
+     * the document changes.
+     */
+    public void documentChanged ()
+    {
+    }
+
+    // documentation inherited from interface DocumentListener
+    public void changedUpdate (DocumentEvent e)
+    {
+        documentChanged();
+    }
+
+    // documentation inherited from interface DocumentListener
+    public void insertUpdate (DocumentEvent e)
+    {
+        documentChanged();
+    }
+
+    // documentation inherited from interface DocumentListener
+    public void removeUpdate (DocumentEvent e)
+    {
+        documentChanged();
+    }
+}