Adding a KeyListener to a Disabled TextArea

[mike200015]

I'm making a typing tutor program, and I want the user to type a passage that it shown in a text area, but I don't want what they're typing to be shown on screen. So I am trying to add a keylistener to the text area that is showing the passage.
The passage is set so that it is not editable, and also disabled( setEnabled(false)).

Is there a way to do this, nothing I tried has worked?

Thanks,
Mike

[ericfourfour]

Couldn't you just not render the text instead of disabling the text field?

[FileFantasy]

How bout make it so that if getText() of this JTextArea is not nothing, append the text to a StringBuffer, then setText("")? Is that kinda what you want?

[mike200015]

Thanks for your help, I managed to figure it out.