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Asked: 2026-05-26T02:46:31+00:00

When I press Delete button on the keyboard, program gets three events – KEY_PRESSED

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When I press "Delete" button on the keyboard, program gets three events – KEY_PRESSED, KEY_TYPED, and KEY_RELEASED. The problem is, in KEY_PRESSED and KEY_RELEASED, parameter "keyCode" is set, but in the KEY_TYPED it is not (in fact, there no meaningful info in that event). With F5 key, it is even funnier – KEY_PRESSED and KEY_RELEASED are registered, but KEY_TYPED never occurs.

The listener was added via Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener(). Using JDK 6.26.

What could be my problem?

EDIT:
Here are the events that happen when Delete key is pressed:

 java.awt.event.KeyEvent[KEY_PRESSED,keyCode=127,keyText=Delete,keyChar=Delete,keyLocation=KEY_LOCATION_STANDARD,rawCode=119,primaryLevelUnicode=127,scancode=0] on javax.swing.JButton[,0,0,61x30,alignmentX=0.0,alignmentY=0.5,border=javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthBorder@50f38cf0,flags=288,maximumSize=,minimumSize=,preferredSize=,defaultIcon=javax.swing.ImageIcon@6ae2d0b2,disabledIcon=,disabledSelectedIcon=,margin=javax.swing.plaf.InsetsUIResource[top=0,left=0,bottom=0,right=0],paintBorder=true,paintFocus=true,pressedIcon=,rolloverEnabled=true,rolloverIcon=,rolloverSelectedIcon=,selectedIcon=,text=SVG,defaultCapable=false]
 java.awt.event.KeyEvent[KEY_TYPED,keyCode=0,keyText=Unknown keyCode: 0x0,keyChar=Delete,keyLocation=KEY_LOCATION_UNKNOWN,rawCode=0,primaryLevelUnicode=127,scancode=0] on javax.swing.JButton[,0,0,61x30,alignmentX=0.0,alignmentY=0.5,border=javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthBorder@50f38cf0,flags=288,maximumSize=,minimumSize=,preferredSize=,defaultIcon=javax.swing.ImageIcon@6ae2d0b2,disabledIcon=,disabledSelectedIcon=,margin=javax.swing.plaf.InsetsUIResource[top=0,left=0,bottom=0,right=0],paintBorder=true,paintFocus=true,pressedIcon=,rolloverEnabled=true,rolloverIcon=,rolloverSelectedIcon=,selectedIcon=,text=SVG,defaultCapable=false]
 java.awt.event.KeyEvent[KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=127,keyText=Delete,keyChar=Delete,keyLocation=KEY_LOCATION_STANDARD,rawCode=119,primaryLevelUnicode=127,scancode=0] on javax.swing.JButton[,0,0,61x30,alignmentX=0.0,alignmentY=0.5,border=javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthBorder@50f38cf0,flags=288,maximumSize=,minimumSize=,preferredSize=,defaultIcon=javax.swing.ImageIcon@6ae2d0b2,disabledIcon=,disabledSelectedIcon=,margin=javax.swing.plaf.InsetsUIResource[top=0,left=0,bottom=0,right=0],paintBorder=true,paintFocus=true,pressedIcon=,rolloverEnabled=true,rolloverIcon=,rolloverSelectedIcon=,selectedIcon=,text=SVG,defaultCapable=false]
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  1. Editorial Team

    From the JavaDoc The "key typed" event. This event is generated when a character is entered. In the simplest case, it is produced by a single key press. Often, however, characters are produced by series of key presses, and the mapping from key pressed events to key typed events may be many-to-one or many-to-many.

    You are trying to get the F5 key which is probably not registered as a character being entered. By using the KEY_RELEASED you will consistently get the result you are looking for and the API is behaving as expected.

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