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Thread: JButton with "Enter Key" keyboard action

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    Default JButton with "Enter Key" keyboard action

    i would like to share this one that i gathered because of my frustration with my school project...

    this will show you how to make a keypress event (Enter key) in a simple JButton

    import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
    import javax.swing.JButton;
    import javax.swing.JComponent;
    import javax.swing.JFrame;
    import javax.swing.JPanel;
    import javax.swing.KeyStroke;
     
    /**
     *
     * @author
     */
     
     
    public class JButtonWithEnterKeyPress {
     
        public static void main(String[] args) {
     
            JFrame frame = new JFrame();
            JPanel panel = new JPanel();
     
            // set this panel's layout to null for absolute positioning of components
            panel.setLayout(null);
     
            JButton button = new JButton();
     
            button.registerKeyboardAction(button.getActionForKeyStroke(
                                          KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_SPACE, 0, false)),
                                          KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER, 0, false),
                                          JComponent.WHEN_FOCUSED);
     
            button.registerKeyboardAction(button.getActionForKeyStroke(
                                          KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_SPACE, 0, true)),
                                          KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER, 0, true),
                                          JComponent.WHEN_FOCUSED);
     
            button.setText("Press The Enter Key");
            button.setBounds(0, 0, 200, 120);
            panel.add(button);
     
            frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
            frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
            frame.setVisible(true);
            frame.setSize(200, 120);
        }
    }

    you can use this by defining your own dialogs that will act just as like a JOptionPane dialogs...

    i hope you will like this

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    Default Re: JButton with "Enter Key" keyboard action

    Thanks for the useful tip.

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    Last edited by cafeteria84; January 22nd, 2012 at 04:07 PM.

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    Default Re: JButton with "Enter Key" keyboard action

    Thank you so much! Very very useful :-)

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