Accelerator text font problem

Question

When I set an accelerator key for a menu item,
the name of that key is displayed beside the
menu item. For example:
fileExitItem.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(
KeyEvent.VK_X, ActionEvent.ALT_MASK));
The above code will display "Alt-X" next to the
label in the file exit menu item. Now, if I
wanted to change the font for the menu item I
could enter something like:
private class MyMenuItem extends JMenuItem
{   public MyMenuItem(String label, ImageIcon icon)
{   super(label, icon);
setFont(new Font("Dialog", Font.BOLD, 16));
And then define all my menu items to descend from the
above class. The problem is that this does not change
the font used to display the accelerator key. How do
you change that??
My thanks to anyone willing to help out.

Answer 1

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And then define all my menu items to descend from the
above class. Don't do that. See below.
The problem is that this does not change
the font used to display the accelerator key. How
do you change that??Such changes should be done via the UIManager. If you compile and run the code below, you will see that the UIManager has keys such as Menu.font and Menu.acceleratorFont which you can use to do exactly what you want to do with no need to create a bunch of widget subclasses.
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public class UILister extends JPanel {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         try {
         JFrame f = new JFrame("UI Properties");
         f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
         Set defaults = UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults().entrySet();
         TreeSet ts = new TreeSet(new Comparator() {
             public int compare(Object a, Object b) {
                 Map.Entry ea = (Map.Entry)a;
                 Map.Entry eb = (Map.Entry)b;
                 return ((String)ea.getKey()).compareTo(((String)eb.getKey()));
         ts.addAll(defaults);
         Object[][] kvPairs = new Object[defaults.size()][2];
         Object[] columnNames = new Object[] {"Key", "Value"};
         int row = 0;
         for (Iterator i = ts.iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
             Object o = i.next();
             Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry)o;
             kvPairs[row][0] = entry.getKey();
             kvPairs[row][1] = entry.getValue();
             row++;
         JTable table = new JTable(kvPairs, columnNames);
         JScrollPane sp = new JScrollPane(table);
         f.getContentPane().add(sp);
         f.pack();
         f.setVisible(true);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
}===========