Consuming an event

Question

Hello,
I have a JList and a KeyListener registered to it. The KeyListener class code is attached below:
private class ListCancelKeysListener extends KeyAdapter
    public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) { e.consume(); }
}The problem is that the events are not consumed by the listener! I still get the JList's responses to key presses processed!
Can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Real work might need tweaking the UI level, but this also works, virtually.
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class ColdList{
  JFrame frame;
  Container con;
  JList list;
  public ColdList(){
    frame = new JFrame();
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    con = frame.getContentPane();
    list = new JList(new String[] {"Socket", "HTTP", "HTML", "CSS",
     "JavaScript", "Flash", "Servlet", "JSP", "JSF", "Facelet"});
    list.setCellRenderer(new CellNoRen());
    con.add(list, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    frame.pack();
    frame.setVisible(true);
  public static void main(String[] args){
    new ColdList();
class CellNoRen extends DefaultListCellRenderer{
  public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list, Object value,
   int index, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus){
    Component com = super.getListCellRendererComponent(list, value, index,
     isSelected, cellHasFocus);
     com.setBackground(list.getBackground());
     com.setForeground(list.getForeground());
     ((JLabel)(com)).setBorder(null);
     return com;
}Beware, selection(s) is/are still being generated from this list.