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Passing KeyEvent upward

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Hi,

I'm trying to learn how to program in Java and use some of the GUI features.  Here's something I'm trying to do but haven't succeeded at yet.

I have a text window (JTextPane) object, and I want to set things up so that when a certain something happens, a popup menu (JPopupMenu) will come up.  But I'd like it so that if the user presses a key, the key is handled just as if the menu hadn't come up--that is, the key-press event will be handled by the JTextPane (or is it the associated document?) as if the user had typed that key into the document.  I've already set up a MenuKeyListener for the popup menu that recognizes the KeyEvent and calls menu.setVisible(false) to get rid of the menu.  So far, so good.  But I don't know how to get the KeyEvent propagated to the text window.  I've tried getKeyListeners() on the JTextPane and then calling the keyTyped explicitly on each listener.  No good--the only listener it found was one I had added myself for debugging.  I also tried textPane.getInputContext().dispatchEvent(e) on the KeyEvent; that didn't do what I wanted either (seemed to have no effect).

Any thoughts?  I haven't found anything else to try.

Thanks,

                           -- Adam

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Passing KeyEvent upward Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> - 2012-07-22 16:09 -0700
  Re: Passing KeyEvent upward markspace <-@.> - 2012-07-22 17:26 -0700
    Re: Passing KeyEvent upward markspace <-@.> - 2012-07-22 17:39 -0700
    Re: Passing KeyEvent upward Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> - 2012-07-23 21:15 -0700
      Re: Passing KeyEvent upward markspace <-@.> - 2012-07-23 23:08 -0700
  Re: Passing KeyEvent upward "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-07-22 21:32 -0400
  Re: Passing KeyEvent upward Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-23 23:46 -0700
  Re: Passing KeyEvent upward Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2012-07-24 13:15 -0700
    Re: Passing KeyEvent upward Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> - 2012-07-24 21:08 -0700
      Re: Passing KeyEvent upward markspace <-@.> - 2012-07-24 22:50 -0700
  Re: Passing KeyEvent upward Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-07-25 00:32 +0200

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