Accelerator Key Indicator Disappeared

I am building and running under jdk/jre 1.4.1.
My menu accelerators are no longer visible for the menu bar or sub menus if I use the mouse. If I use the keyboard, they are visible. I am running on XP. This was not the behavior I had with jdk/jre 1.4.0 or 1.3.1 or older versions.
Has anyone seen this behavior? I know what the accelerators are because I wrote the app, but a user wouldn't have a clue. Letters don't show up as underlined until the <alt> key is pressed. Also, from a user's perspective, they should be able to mix keyboard and mouse access.

try this and let us know if it helps,
UIManager.put("Button.showMnemonics", Boolean.TRUE);

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RE: (forte-users) Accelerator keys under MS Windows95/98/NT

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Unfortunately, ALT key is not recognized as a validkey modifier on Windows
That isn't entirely true. The ALT key is recognized. I've used it
successfully
under Windows 95 and NT. The only annoying side-effect is that you get the
standard operating system beep when you perform the keypress.
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Subject: Re: (forte-users) Accelerator keys under MS Windows 95/98/NT
The Window class has a method named SetAsFunctionKey
and an event named FunctionKeyPress. When used
in combination, the former can be used to configure
various accelerator keys for the window widgets
and the latter can be used to trap them.
For more details, take a look at Forte online help.
Unfortunately, ALT key is not recognized as a valid
key modifier on Windows, but is only available on
Unix and VMS - for reasons beyond my comprehension :(
Hope this helps
Ajith Kallambella M.
Forte Systems Consultant.
From: "Burns, Troy" <[email protected]>
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Subject: (forte-users) Accelerator keys under MS Windows 95/98/NT
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:56:07 -0400
Let's say I have a pushbutton on a window and I've given it
label text of "&Search". In past developer-lives, the ampersand
is what gives the button the ability to respond to ALT-S. This
doesn't appear to be the case in Forte. What do I need to do
to make this work?
Thanks in advance,
Troy Burns
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I have attached acclerators to menu items. When watch cursor
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Thanks
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I took the same thing from earlier postings. But it didn't work.
Its taking key events. (In my case menu aceelerators are getting enabled by the user when watch cursor is on)

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