mnemonic on titledborder

mnemonic on titledborder - accessibility

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laurentoget@gmail.com - 21 Jul 2006 20:44 GMT

I am currently working on the accessibility of a swing based GUI. I
have a number of GUI elements which have a titledBorder and I am
looking for a way to set up a mnemonic and/or a keyboard shortcut to
bring the keyboard focus to that element. I know how to achieve a
similar result with a jlabel, setLabelFor, and setDisplayedMnemonic,
but the titledBorder looks better, requires less code, and it also
automatically sets the accessibleName property to the title.

any clue?

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Andrey Kuznetsov - 27 Jul 2006 07:48 GMT

>I am currently working on the accessibility of a swing based GUI. I
> have a number of GUI elements which have a titledBorder and I am
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> any clue?

since TitledBorder is not a Component you can't do it directly,
but you may try to hack it.
You need 2 things:
1) to show mnemonic char in the TitledBorder - see in the source of
JLabel/LabelUI how to do it
2) move focus to your component if mnemonic key was pressed - you can do it
with ActionMap/InputMap

HTH

Andrey

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