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How do I leverage standard operating system keyboard shortcuts in a Java Swing application? I see how to add a javax.swing.JToolbar or a menu bar to my application, but it doesn’t appear to be bound to de facto standard keyboard shortcuts (like Ctrl+S for Save).
You can use
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit.getMenuShortcutKeyMask()to get the correct modifier key per-platform (Ctrl, Command, etc.), but I’m not aware of any way to find out what the “standard” shortcuts for an action are, without defining them yourself.Something that excels a little bit more at being native, like SWT, might be better at this kind of thing, though.