Re: Where is the actual menu key processing in Swing or the LaF?

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From	Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject	Re: Where is the actual menu key processing in Swing or the LaF?
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On 05/27/2012 06:52 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Jeff Higgins<jeff@invalid.invalid>  writes:
>> After a good bit of reading on the subject since your post, I find your
>> statement: "»Overwriting« something in a LaF also is not obvious"
>> remarkably mild.
>
>    I did accomplish it in the end by overwriting
>
> processKeyEvent
> ( final java.awt.event.KeyEvent keyEvent,
>    final javax.swing.MenuElement menuElement[],
>    final javax.swing.MenuSelectionManager menuSelectionManager )
>
>    in JMenu, using
>
> javax.swing.MenuSelectionManager.defaultManager().setSelectedPath( javax.swing.MenuElement[] )
>
>    to adjust the menu path.
>
So now you use ram.stephan.JMenu in place of javax.swing.JMenu?

import javax.swing.JFrame;
//import javax.swing.JMenu;
import ram.stephan.JMenu
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;

Maybe I'm tipsy. I thought the whole idea was to replace the "feel" 
rather than the component.

Sigh, back to the watermelon.

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Re: Where is the actual menu key processing in Swing or the LaF? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-25 10:18 -0400
  Re: Where is the actual menu key processing in Swing or the LaF? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-27 18:12 -0400
    Re: Where is the actual menu key processing in Swing or the LaF? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-27 19:11 -0400
      Re: Where is the actual menu key processing in Swing or the LaF? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-27 19:33 -0400
      Re: Where is the actual menu key processing in Swing or the LaF? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-27 21:20 -0400

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