Thanks for the reply. This did not exactly help, but it was enough of a
hint that I was able to find a better solution.
First, after experimenting with other application, I decided to accept the
SPACE key action.
Second, it seems that the right way to make a button respond to the ENTER
key is to make it the default button. If you want ALL your buttons to
respond to the ENTER key, here is a class that you can add to your JDialog
subclass:
private FocusListener makeDefaultFocusListener = new FocusAdapter() {
JButton defaultButton;
public void focusGained(FocusEvent e) {
defaultButton = getRootPane().getDefaultButton();
getRootPane().setDefaultButton((JButton)e.getSource());
}
public void focusLost(FocusEvent e) {
getRootPane().setDefaultButton(defaultButton);
}
};
Then just add this FocusListener to your buttons:
Container cp = getContentPane();
JButton jbtnLogin = new JButton("Login");
jbtnLogin.setActionCommand("Login");
jbtnLogin.addFocusListener(makeDefaultFocusListener);
jbtnLogin.addActionListener(actionEventListener);
cp.add(jbtnLogin);
If you want your dialog to have a default button you can do this as you
normally would:
getRootPane().setDefaultButton(jbtnLogin);
For more on this see
<http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=31&threadID=244517>
Dennis
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Try dialog.getRootPane().setDefaultButton(null);
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:07 PM
Subject: [Juglist] JButton Action Key Binding
> Hello to all,
>
> I been working on a little Swing application where I extends JDialog to
create a LoginDialog class. It includes a JTextField for user id, a
JPasswordField for a password and two JButton objects -- for login and
cancel. Upon testing this I discovered that I can tab to the JButtons, but
the ENTER key does not fire the button actions. The button actions are
fired by the SPACE key. I done some research using Google and found that
since Java 1.2 this is the default behavior. I have found and successfully
tested solutions that enable the ENTER key to fire the button action. So
far, so good. However, I would also like to disable the default
ehavior -- so the SPACE key does not fire the action. Does anyone know how
to do this?
>
> Dennis
>
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