Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "Timasmith" Subject: Re: Efficient way to capt Message-ID: <1171513029.632671.124530@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> X-Comment-To: comp.lang.java.gui,comp.l Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 22 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:30:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303918227 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:30:27 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:30:27 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.gui:939 To: comp.lang.java.gui,comp.l On Feb 13, 12:47 pm, "Larry Barowski" wrote: > > If you anywhere on the (tab/frame) which is not a text field then > > pressing a letter would take you do the default text field. > > > Most commonly in this application you would be in a table or a list, > > when you start to type it takes you to the default text field. > > You are aware that JList has keyboard navigation using > "letter" keys, right? Yes, but I never use a JList - I only ever use JTable as I always end up adding columns to a list. Keyboard navigation by letter is not useful if your list items, a subset of the results, primarily all begin with the same letter. --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24