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I'm trying to use keyboard accelerators for menus.  You know
something like Alt-F for the File menu and then "x" to exit.
Whenever I use setAccelerator() on a menu though I get a ton
of error messages when I use the application plus the frame
doesn't show up.  I would post the error messages from the
stack trace but it scrolls way past so I'm missing the real
important part (note: how do I fix this???).  When I run the
application through the debugger I don't even see the errors
scroll by.  Why is this?

Also I would like to have global key bindings for a frame.
Something like F1 for help, F9 to save data changes, ...
How is this done in Swing?  I've tried binding to the JPanels
and it doesn't work.  Do I have to have a keyPressed binding
for every JTextField/JdbTextField on the screen?

And finally are there any plans to support the Action class
better in JBuilder?  I'm creating Actions for saveChanges,
DeleteRow, help, ... and then using JMenu.add(Action) to add
them but then I can no longer use the visual tool for design.
I like using them (and want to bind the Action to keys as
previously mentioned) and think its a nice design technique
but JBuilder doesn't really seem to know about them.

Opps...  Another finally...  I would like the TAB key and
Enter key to do the same thing (ie: validate field data and
if its alright, move to the next focus field).  I can't quite
figure it out though.  Pressing Enter causes the ActionEvent
but doesn't go to the next field.  Pressing TAB goes to the
next field but no ActionEvent.  I end up binding to the
FocusLost event to check if the value of the field has changed
and handle it in special ways.  Any help or hints on better
ways to do this?

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