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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 linkiOK,ng table concept.
>>
>>
>>
>>
Whew,

You do not want much, do you :)


OK, here is how I made it work.

First, you will need to define an AbstractEvent (I am doing this in the
jbInit() method)



public void jbInit() throws Exception {
  //All of the normal initialization code first. Dots below represent code.  
  //DO NOT TYPE THE DOTS!!
  ..............

   //Put this code in your code.. Of course change the names to your
   // component names
//replace with your JDialog name
     final SimpleDialog sd=(SimpleDialog)this;
 //Create a new AbstractAction javax.swing.AbstractAction
     javax.swing.Action anAction = new javax.swing.AbstractAction() {
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
           //assuming jButton1 is your name and the actionPerformedEvent
            sd.jButton1_actionPerformed(null);
          }
         };
          javax.swing.JComponent jc=(javax.swing.JComponent)
              sd.getComponent(0);
          jc.getInputMap(javax.swing.JComponent.WHEN_IN_FOCUSED_WINDOW).
            put(javax.swing.KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("ENTER"),"myAction");
          jc.getActionMap().put("myAction",anAction);
    }
  }  

That should do it for you..