Disabling WINDOWS CTRL+C in Java Application

Question

Hello Friends,
I want to use CNTRL+C in my SWING Application. But in Windows CTRL+C is used for COPY. I want to use CTRL+C for different purpose. So I want to disable WINDOWS CNTRL+C in my application.
Is there any way to achieve this?
Thanks in Advance
Abhijai

Answer 1

Just one suggestion:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
public class DisablingControlC {
  Object[][] data = {{"aaa","bbb"},{"ccc","ddd"}};
  String[] columnNames = {"000","111"};
  JTable table = new JTable(new DefaultTableModel(data,columnNames));
  JButton button = new JButton();
  private JPanel makeUI() {
    KeyStroke ks = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_C, Event.CTRL_MASK);
    InputMap im = table.getInputMap(
        JComponent.WHEN_ANCESTOR_OF_FOCUSED_COMPONENT);
    im.put(ks, "different_purpose");
    table.getActionMap().put("different_purpose", new AbstractAction() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        if(table.getSelectedRowCount()>0) {
          System.out.println("copy");
          table.getTransferHandler().getCopyAction().actionPerformed(e);
        }else{
          System.out.println("different purpose");
    button.setAction(new AbstractAction("clear selection") {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        table.changeSelection(0, columnNames.length, false, false);
        table.clearSelection();
    button.setFocusable(false);
    JPanel p = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
    p.add(new JScrollPane(table));
    p.add(button, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    return p;
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.getContentPane().add(new DisablingControlC().makeUI());
        frame.setSize(new Dimension(320,240));
        frame.setVisible(true);
}Edited by: aterai on 2009/01/23 16:08