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I think you are looking for this: 
dialog.getRootPane().setDefaultButton(submitButton);

- Alexey.

GEORGE wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> Thanks for replying.  I'm sorry to have made you type so much but my problem
> is much simpler than what you thought.
> 
> I have a dialog with bunch of controls one of which is the OK button.  What
> I want is that should the user press Enter when this dialog has been
> activated,  then the actionPerformed of the OK button should be executed
> (even if the cursor is currently in , say, a text field).   Hope this makes
> sense.
> 
> George
> 
> "Paul Nichols [TeamB]" <paul@comp.net> wrote in message 
> news:43a22b75@newsgroups.borland.com...
>> GEORGE wrote:
>>
>>> I would like that when the user presses the Enter key in a dialog, the
>>> actionPerformed() of a designated button should be executed.  Is there a
>>> button property for this purpose?  How to achieve this effect?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> George
>> I am not exactly sure what you are asking, but I will take a stab at 
>> making
>> an assumption.
>>
>>
>> You have a Dialog and you want to activate the Event listener on another
>> JFrame or JPanel. The solution is to get the instance of that parent
>> container.
>>
>> The easiest way to do this, is to have a static instance of the container
>> you wish to access. Example:
>>
>> public class MyJPanel extends JPanel {
>>
>>  static MyJPanel panel;
>>
>>
>>  public MyJPanel() {
>>   super();
>>
>>  }
>>
>>  public static MyJPanel getMyJPanel(){
>>    if(panel==null){
>>      panel= new MyJPanel();
>>    }
>>   return panel;
>>  }
>>
>>
>>
>>  //Now call the getMyJPanel from the Dialog
>>
>>  public void jDialogButton1_actionPerformed(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
>>     MyJPanel panel=MyJPanel.getMyJPanel();
>>         panel.jButton2_actionPerformed(null);
>>  }
>>
>>  Of course another and a much better way to do thisand avoid dependencies
>> upon your view Components, is to create Listener class(es) that will
>> implement listeners according to usage in the application. Those listeners
>> that would be commonly used in the application or which need to be able to
>> access methods across Frames, Dialogs, etc. could have static references 
>> or
>> be contained in a static class. This enforces better separation between
>> classes. Since I do not know your programming background, I do not know
>> what to reference as a a concept here. If you have database programming
>> background, think of a linking table concept.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 

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