acceleratorkey

I am developing a java swing application. I want to add a keyboard shortcut say CTRL + H . This should perform the same action performed by jButton1 when clicked. This shortcut should behave in the same way even when jButton1 is not focused. I tried with KeyEventDispatcher, but it doesn't seem to be working for me. Is there any other way? Chan Ok - First I don't think there is a way to set application wide shortcuts in Java Swing(Refer this question ). But for a component it is possible. You have to use a create an Action for the KeyStroke . But for Windows I found this library very helpful .

I am working in an English app on a german laptop, over a spanish OS. Even if I explictly set Locale.setDefault(Locale.ENGLISH) at the beggining of my app, I am seeing the hotkexs in the menu as CTRL + Mayúsculas + C instead of CTRL + SHIFT + C that I passed to the KeyStroke object. Is not only that word does not get localized to english as I specified, but also that it maps SHIFT key to MAYUS (CAPS LOCK in english), so I guess this is not only a language issue, but keymap´s as well. So how can I impose english for all the GUI components? Thank you! You have to make sure that you set the

I've tried my best and cannot figure out what happened here. It worked fine in Delphi 4. After upgrading to Delphi 2009, I don't know if this is the way it is supposed to work, or if it's a problem: This is what my program's menu looks like in Design Mode under Delphi 2009: Notice that every word in the Main Menu and the File submenu have one letter underlined. It is supposed to be like this. This underlined letter is called the Accelerator Key and is standard in Windows applications so that you can use the Alt-key and that letter to quickly select the menu item and then submenu item with the