Question

BasicTreeUI (in JDK 1.5) handles key events on JTree by navigating to an item on the tree that starts with that letter. What is the most straight forward way to turn that behavior off?

Answer 1

I think the most straightforward way is to override the createKeyListener method:

tree.setUI(
        new BasicTreeUI(){
            protected KeyListener createKeyListener(){ return null; }
        }
    );