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No. I want to change the behavior of TAB for JTextArea.
When I have a panel with multiple text fields I use TAB to
go to the next field. However, as soon as I entered text in
a JTextArea I inserted a TAB instead of going to the next field.

I can't see why the implementation of TAB behavior should differ
for one component like that. In the MS world CTRL-TAB insert a tab
and I guess that that is what most user is expecting even for Java
developed applications.

Thanks for the input on traversal though - that is something I will
use in other  places.

John McGrath [TeamB] wrote:
> On 5/16/2005 at 3:32:48 PM, Magnus wrote:
> 
> 
>>     textArea.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter(){
>>       public void keyPressed(KeyEvent ke){
>>         if(ke.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_TAB)
>>         {
>>           ke.consume();
>>           [nextComponent].requestFocus();
>>         }}});
> 
> 
> It looks like you are just trying to customize the tab order.  If that 
> is the case, you should look at java.awt.FocusTraversalPolicy.  For more
> information on Swing/AWT focus handling, see the trail "How to Use the
> Focus Subsystem" in the Java Tutorial:
> 
>     http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/focus.html
>