Disablying keyboard events in a JFrame.

Question

Hello,
How is it possible to disable keyboard events for a specific JFrame and then (after a while) enable events again ?
thank you,
Rami

Answer 1

Look at this program, events are send but you can't see the data in the fields.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Nok extends Frame
public Nok()
     super();
     setBounds(6,6,400,300);     
     addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter()
    {     public void windowClosing(WindowEvent ev)
               dispose();     
               System.exit(0);
     setLayout(new GridLayout(4,0));     
     add(new TextField("this is a text field"));
     add(new TextArea("this is a text area"));
     add(new Button("this is a button"));
     setVisible(true);
     Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener(new AWTEventListener()
     {     public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent e)
               System.out.println(""+e);
               ((KeyEvent)e).consume();
     }   ,AWTEvent.KEY_EVENT_MASK);
public static void main (String[] args)
     new Nok();  
Noah
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Nok extends Frame
public Nok()
     super();
     setBounds(6,6,400,300);     
     addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter()
{     public void windowClosing(WindowEvent ev)
               dispose();
               System.exit(0);
     setLayout(new GridLayout(4,0));     
     add(new TextField("this is a text field"));
     add(new TextArea("this is a text area"));
     add(new Button("this is a button"));
     setVisible(true);
     Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener(new AWTEventListener()
     {     public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent e)
               System.out.println(""+e);
               ((KeyEvent)e).consume();
     } ,AWTEvent.KEY_EVENT_MASK);
public static void main (String[] args)
     new Nok();