Re: Passing KeyEvent upward

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From	Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject	Re: Passing KeyEvent upward
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On Sunday, July 22, 2012 5:26:08 PM UTC-7, markspace wrote:
> On 7/22/2012 4:09 PM, Adam Beneschan wrote:
> &gt; if the user presses a key, the
> &gt; key is handled just as if the menu hadn&#39;t come up--that is, the
> &gt; key-press event will be handled by the JTextPane (or is it the
> &gt; associated document?) as if the user had typed that key into the
> 
> 
> Sounds like an accelerator to me.

No, I don't think so.  If I understand the term correctly, an accelerator just gives you a quick way to select a menu item (possibly from a submenu deeper in the menu tree) using the keyboard.  That isn't what I want here.

But thanks for the info.  I'll look into it.  It may be a few days before I can try it, though.

                             -- Adam

> 
> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/menu.html>
> 
> Also take a look at Actions.
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> Ick. Sounds terrible.  You seem to be making things worse since you 
> don't know about the existing APIs that do menu acceleration.  I'd stop, 
> make a super small example to get your thoughts straightened out, then 
> consider how best to rework your app with your new ideas.

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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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