F1 Key for help... where to place the listener?

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Jack - 29 Jan 2004 01:18 GMT

Hi,

I'd like to add help to my application, and have the help system invoked
when the user pressed the F1 key on windows.

My question is, where do I attach the key listener?

I want the listener to be able to capture the key event regardless of which
component has focus.

Thanks,

Jack

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Alan Moore - 29 Jan 2004 01:36 GMT

>Hi,
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>Jack

The easiest way is just to tap into the EventQueue, as described in
this article:

http://www.javaspecialists.co.za/archive/Issue007.html

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Adam - 30 Jan 2004 15:28 GMT

> Hi,
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> I want the listener to be able to capture the key event regardless of which
> component has focus.

KeyboardFocusManager.addKeyEventDispatcher | PostProcessor

Adam

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Jack - 03 Feb 2004 03:13 GMT

> Hi,
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> Jack

Alan's suggestion worked based on the article... works perfectly. I guess I
could've invoked the same via a menu item neumonic?. Oh well... now I know
how to do the hot-key thing.

Adam, I will check out your suggestion as well.

In any case, this is sweet... it's working quite well so I thank you for
your pointers... otherwise this could have been fairly painful.

Thanks again,

Jack

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