Re: Swap TAB and Ctrl-TAB for JTextArea

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From: Lori M Olson [TeamB]
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 15:39

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Magnus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to swap the behavior of the TAB function for a JTextArea. I 
> constantly use TAB to go to next focus and always get caught in the text 
> area.
> 
> I might be bad at finding the simplest thing but I have searched the 
> web, my java books, jbuilder help, ... but can't find any help on this 
> subject. (I found some questions on Google news but no replies).
> 
> Magnus

Doing a Google search on "JTextArea" and "tab" yields many solutions 
from the ridiculously simple:

http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/13866

To the insanely complex:

http://forums.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=609727&messageID=3342601

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Regards,

Lori Olson [TeamB]

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