Hello,

I work on an app that uses single-character app-wide keyboard
accelerators to trigger Actions.  Not ideal, but that's what the legacy
version of the app does, so we are honoring that.

We have a dockable panel that contains a JTextField, and when the user
types in that field, the actions that correspond to keys pressed are
fired.  We do not want this to happen, but are unable to figure out how
to stop it.  I scoured this and other groups, and the intarweb, with no
success.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how to make a JTextField ignore all
app-wide keymaps?

I tried code like this (_pickNameText is the name of the JTextField,
and "c" is one of the accelerator keys we're trying to ignore):

Action doNothing = new AbstractAction() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
//do nothing
System.out.println( "hi" );
}
};
_pickNameText.getInputMap().put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("c"),
"doNothing");
_pickNameText.getActionMap().put("doNothing", doNothing);
_pickNameText.getActionMap().put("c", doNothing);

And I also tried code like this:

KeyStroke ksC = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke('c');
_pickNameText.getKeymap().removeKeyStrokeBinding( ksC );
_pickNameText.getKeymap().setResolveParent( null );

and all I ever got was blocking the input of the actual 'c' key, which
wasn't the intention.

Any help from you gurus out there would be most appreciated!
Thanks, --mtnK