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"Tor Iver Wilhelmsen" <tor.wilhelmsen@sds.no> wrote in message
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> "Petr Kozelka" <pkozelka@email.cz> writes:
>
> > Isn't there any more elegant way ?
> > What if I have twenty text fields in the form ? And it is not so
unusual...
>
> The alternative is to alter the JTextFields' Keymap - which is less
> elegant. :-)
>
> But what's so unelegant about
>
> ActionListener act = new ActionListener() {
>   // Implementation
> };
>
>
>    okButton.addActionListener(act);
>    jTextField1.addActionListener(act);
>    // ...

what I find unelegant is this:

jTextField1.addActionListener(act);
jTextField2.addActionListener(act);
jTextField3.addActionListener(act);
jTextField4.addActionListener(act);
jTextField5.addActionListener(act);
jTextField6.addActionListener(act);
jTextField7.addActionListener(act);
jTextField8.addActionListener(act);
.
.
.

In real, the names would probably not be just number-indexed default name,
so it is even more easy to forget one of them.
What I mean by elegant is catching the ENTER and ESC at window level.
What if I want to have seven shortcuts in a complex dialog ? Am I supposed
to connect all shortcut handlers with all text fields manually ?
I admit very little experience with JAVA GUI so maybe I am missing something
trivial.

Thanks,
Petr