Find/Invent "free" keys for keybindings ...

.. as opposed to those which are bound by default. Sure that's completely un-understandable <g>. So here's my concrete problem:
The requirement is a keybinding to an action like "clear all fields", like f.i. in a form (aka: arbitrary container with lots of children and grand-grand-children) after already having entered some stuff. That keybinding should work from any component which currently has the focus. The location for the binding is easy enough: that's the inputMap of type WHEN_ANCESTOR of the form.
The problem is to find a key which is (no no particular order)
- not used locally by any of those arbitrary input components
- is not used by the OS
- is intuitive enough for the user
Thingies I'm trying/thinking about trying
Escape with some modifier (the bare esc is already too widely used, f.i. as undo in JFormattedTextField).
- alt is out off question (menu acc)
- ctrl was my favourite, until seeing window's startMenu opening
- shift looked like a nice way out, until I got the no-no because it's swallowed somehow/where in win7
In hind-sight, I could have known the ctrl-esc issue and started with looking at the ui system bindings first. That wouldn't have found the shift-esc on win7, though. So whatever a candidate key (can think of deleted, backspace-delete, what else is intuitive enough) might be, it has to be really tested on all major versions of all major OSs?
From the old database (okay, okay, MS Access is not a db ;-) days I think I remember that esc-esc cleared the form. But I expect that to be (note to myself: what about a quick try?) ... a hell to implement in swing: too many core components swallow escapes even if they do nothing with it. Every sloppy implementation of someUIAction.isEnabled will blow up the binding.
On the whole, I reached the clueless end. Ideas highly welcome!
Cheers
Jeanette

thanks for checking :-)
BTW, there's a page in wikipedia comparing default bindings across OSs. Don't know how good that is, but seems to have enough references to check in the original documents:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts
Cheers
Jeanette

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