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Re: Passing KeyEvent upward

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On 7/22/2012 4:09 PM, Adam Beneschan wrote:
> 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


Sounds like an accelerator to me.

<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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