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Asked: 2026-05-27T00:19:25+00:00

Media keys can be hardware or vendor specific, unlike the normal keyboard keys, so

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Media keys can be hardware or vendor specific, unlike the normal keyboard keys, so they do not appear to be widely supported – especially in the JDK.

Regardless, can a media key event be fired within Java so that an open media player will respond as if the user has pressed the Play/Pause button on their keyboard, thus enacting a play/pause on the current media?

If no Java specific answers are available, I would still be interested to see any solutions for non-platform independent languages.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use JNI to call a small C Function or maybe you can use the Java Robot class.

    Have a look at:

    Simulate a Keypress WinAPI – keybd_event

    List of Virtual Keycodes

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