Enter Key Problems

So last night I install the latest security update, I restart the computer and then go to sleep. This morning I wake up, turn on my MBP and my Enter key doesn't work. I popped off the key to make sure nothing is obviously wrong, everything physically appears fine. I have no idea what would cause this, I'm stumped.

I also just discovered that neither of my shift keys work now.

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hello,
there are a few projects of enterprise quality which I am developing in java swing. I found out through research that many or rather most people involved with java believe that swing is ready for enterprise class robust desktop applications.
so I as the team leador am starting my new projects in java swing.
I personally find that the amount of java libraries present provide a rich set of functionality and it gives big mussle power to the developers.
I am only concerned about one problem which many of you might have solved.
I find that I have to hit the space bar instead of enter key to fire an action. in languages like vb I can press enter key to fire the click events. specially in menu items I certainly don't expect my clients to press the spacebar. besides there are many people who are so used to the keyboard and enter key in particular that it will be hard or rather next to impossible to change their habbits.
how can I make the menu items work with the enter key. I mean do I need to create the code for keypress events every time I also create an action performed method? or is there a way where I can do it without extra coding.
it is just that I don't want to right extra code for enter key along with click events.
one more important note.
I am a blind person and I use the access bridge technology of java.
so when I am involved in coding, I use the same.
so may be my problem isn't a problem in the first place.
kindly provide me some help
thanks
Krishnakant.

The enter-key works on menu-items in all my applications. It did so since I started with java few years ago.
Maybe some other problem (OS-specific) ?

Submitting a form with enter key causing strange problems

I am having a very strange problem with a webapp I am currently developing. I am using JSF 1.2 along with Facelets and RichFaces. I have coded a workflow/wizard 4-step process, and on some pages I have 4 submit buttons that all call different actions on the page. The users thought it would be useful to have the enter key submit the form, so I followed some online resources to trap a keypress using javascript, looking for the enter keycode and calling document.getElementById("elementName").click(). This works fine most of the time. Sometimes, though, it seems as if an entire new session is being created, and odd behavior starts happening. For example, my page will only include 2 of the 4 facelets on the screen -or- I will get NullPointerExceptions for objects that I know have been created in the session bean I am currently using -or- I will get a duplicate form Id after trying to re-submit the page. Could the javascript click simulation not be submitting all of the form elements or is the enter key also acting like its default action (the form submission) in addition to the "click"? I'm really at my wit's end here (plus it's nearly 3 AM, that never helps things). All of the buttons being clicked are standard h:commandButtons. There is some setTimeout logic included to disable the buttons on the page to prevent double clicks (I cannot disable them onsubmit because disabled buttons don't pass the right values, perhaps that's causing it, but if so, clicking the buttons with the mouse would cause that issue too, right?)
I am not posting the code (yet), but if anyone wants to take a look see and see if I am doing something really abhorrently wrong, I'm more than willing to, I'm just curious if anyone has had problems regarding javascript submission of forms via the click() method. Clicking the button does not exhibit this type of behavior. Just as a side note: I am doing different things with the enter key depending if a modal window is open (the enter key closes the modal if it's up, and if not, it submits the form via a button click).
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Thank you.

edfrost wrote:
Could the javascript click simulation not be submitting all of the form elements or is the enter key also acting like its default action (the form submission) in addition to the "click"?My guess is the second of these. You need to suppress the event handling after programmatically clicking the button.

Problem with enter key in the quiz templates

hi,
I need some i am using quiz templates and my problem is when
i make the swf file and test the quiz it works good , but when i
press the enter key , the quiz doesn't work and repeat and go to
the first screen , i don't know if i have to block the enter key or
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Based on my experimentation a while back, in 1.4 it still believes that the JFrame is the window in focus, even though a JOptionPane is currently in front of it (unless I misinterpreted what was going on). Thus, the frame seems to get the keyboard event and re-invoke the action.
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Problem with Enter key and JOptionPane in 1.4

Hi,
I had a problem with an application I was working on.
In this application, pressing [Enter] anywhere within the focused window would submit the information entered into the form that was contained within the frame.
The application would then try to validate the data. If it was found to be invalid, it would pop up a JOptionPane informing the user of that fact.
By default, pressing [Enter] when a JOptionPane is up will activate the focused button (in most cases, the [OK] button) thus dismissing the dialog.
In JDK 1.3 this worked fine. But in JDK 1.4, this has the result of dismissing the dialog and opping it up again. This is because the [Enter] key still works on the frame behind the JOptionPane and thus tries to validate it again, which results in another invalid dialog msg popping up.
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import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import javax.swing.AbstractAction;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.KeyStroke;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
import javax.swing.WindowConstants;
* @author avromf
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          contents.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
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          contents.add(button);
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A.F.

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In the address bar where type the address of the web site at the top. after entering the address i press enter key from the keyboard but it does'nt work there . Means the page is not navigating towards the address. Kindly solve the problem

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Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]
In Firefox 4 you can use one of these to start in [[Safe mode]]:
* Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
* Hold down the Shift key while double clicking the Firefox desktop shortcut (Windows)

Problem with the enter key

I am facing a problem when I press enter key on any control like buttons, menus etc., The event get transferred to the parent container. It results in very weird behavior.
For example I am showing a right click popup on a button, and when I hit enter on the selected popup menu the parent button also get clicked.
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How to consume? Action even does not have this method.
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Problem capturing "Enter Key" within 2 paragraph in JSP

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Are you displaying the data again in TextArea? If not then you need to take care of '\r\n'. Split the data for '\r\n' and display the data in two paragraphs.
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Problem with disabling "ENTER" key in JTextArea

Hi,
I have the following codes to disable the 'ENTER' key in the JTextArea,
but it does not work. Does anyone know why?
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I don't know how you mean "disable", but if you are going to ignore the Enter key, then add a KeyListener to the text area, and in the key pressed method, consume() the key event if the VK_ENTER was pressed. That's all, and you don't have to deal with that key binding thingy.
The other two event types (typed and released) might be ignored, the enter is processed during key press (as it is now, with the default settings).
The reason is that processing the Enter key (and other such internally understood keys) is done by the peer, but the peer won't get the key event if it's already consumed.
FYI: Were it a JTextField, consuming the Enter key presses would mean that the field won't fire action events any more. Since text area does not fire action events, therefore it's a non issue.
FYI2: Consuming the event only blocks the event to be sent to the peer, all the other listeners still get it.

Multi line field Navigation problem with ENTER key

No trigger on the field. Multi line Property is set to true.
The probleb is, when the cursor reaches in the multi line field. the contents of the field are hilighted/selected. So as it happens in Notepad or Word, if you select some already written text and press ENTER key the selected text will be replaced by carriage return so the selected data will be lost. Same is the case with multi line field. When field gets focus it selects the contents of field and when ENTER is pressed all the contents are deleted and a carriage return is placed.
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Hi Nadeem,
One work around is that you have store content of that multi-line field in to some other variable thru PRE-TEXT-ITEM and once again assign (based on some conditon) in POST-TEXT-ITEM.
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We are using Java 1.2.
When login sessions are launched, the login prompt is displayed.
After we enter the user id and press the "Enter" Key, the UI remains at the "user id" prompt and is not accepting the "Enter" Key.
As a result, we are not getting the password prompt and hence NE UI is not deing displayed.
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http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/javax/swing/doc-files/Key-Metal.html#JButton
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Symptom
In customizing:
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