Question

I have a JFrame which contains most everything in the application. It has a KeyListener attached, and it also has several buttons and textfield on it. The problem it, when a button is clicked or a textfield is selected, it gets focus and shortcuts don’t work. Of course, one can tab out of them, but to do this you must tab through EVERYTHING (each button, each textfield) before giving the window focus again.

Is there a sensible way to only require one tab to return focus to the frame from the textfield, and no tabs to return focus to the frame from a button click?

A WindowListener doesn’t seem like the best way to do this, but if it’s the only way I suppose I can forge forward there.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

It has a KeyboardListener attached

I have never heard of the KeyboardListener class so I can only guess what you are trying to do.

My guess is that you should NOT be using a listener of any kind.

Instead you should be using Key Bindings.