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Re: ActionListener

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From: Greg Hamer
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 00:00
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Pressing the space bar will. Enter is more general as it usually applies no
matter what control has focus (The cancel button could have focus, but
pressing enter  usually counts as hitting Ok). So all the controls that dont
use enter themselves are usually listened to for enter or esc so that the
right thing can be done.

Michael Nguyen wrote:

> I installed an ActionListener for a awt.Button.  It is invoked only when
> I
> click on the button but not when I tab to the button and press the Enter
> key.
> To handle the Enter key, I need to install keyListener.  Why doesn't the
>
> key press invoke the ActionListener handler ?  What other conditions
> is the ActionListner handler invoked besides mouseClick ?
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Michael,
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Date: 1998/11/06
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