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cholland
cholland

Reputation: 251

Capturing "Tab" key press by both the focused component and its container

Is there a way to propagate a key press from say a JTextField to its container's KeyListener implementation?

So in effect, the keypress would be acted upon by both the text field and the JPanel. Right now the text field is consuming the key press so is nonexistent to the JPanel underneath.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 828

Answers (2)

camickr
camickr

Reputation: 324207

The question is why do you want to do this? What is your actual requirement as oppose to your attempted solution. Having an event handled by two components is generally not a good idea.

In general you should not use KeyListeners. Swing was designed to use Key Bindings. However, in this case it won't help because as mentioned earlier the focus subsystem handles the tab key.

If this is the only solution to your problem, then I think you can use KeyEventPostProcessor to listen for any KeyEvent. See Global Event Listeners for more info.

Upvotes: 1

trashgod
trashgod

Reputation: 205885

In Swing, the tab key is used to change the focus from one component to another. The article Validating Input discusses InputVerifier, which may help you do what you want.

Upvotes: 2

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