First Keystroke Ignored

Not sure if this should be posted here or within the OS thread, but as I first noticed this on Snow Leopard and it's also the case on Lion, I'll try here.
Whenever I return to my Macbook after a few moments absence (not long enough for screensaver or sleep etc) the first keystroke is always ignored. Often, indeed usually, this is in Google, so that the search is rendered meaningless.
It's not just Google though and not just safari. Does anyone know what causes this? Is there a simple fix?

HI Chris,
Not sure if the keyboard glitch is a result of the repair by Apple, but you could try resetting the PMU, instructions here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343. Read through this article all the way. Resetting the PRAM might do the trick first.
Did I get the right iMac?
Carolyn

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While still holding down the command key - I hit the 'g' key again to do another find again. But instead of executing teh find again, hitting teh 'g' key the sdecond time types "g' over last search item found, acting as if teh command key was not still pessed.
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I have researched this fault on the internet and it does appear to be out there but so far I have not stumbled on a cure.
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HI Chris,
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Did I get the right iMac?
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b. if you want to change the keystroke to TAB
you can set new keystroke
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here is the working solution
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import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
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import java.util.TreeSet;
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How to trap the first key?

Hello World,
I am using JTable in that I am using custom TextField as a Editor Component. Now I want to trap the first key pressed in the textfield.
I am using public boolean editCellAt(int row,int column,EventObject e) method. In this method I get the value of �e� as a null if I press any key. So I can not trap the event here.
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I tried to override the processKeyBinding() method but this seems to trap all the key pressed and not allow me to navigate also.
Can anybody provide me the solution how I can trap the first key only.
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Hello World,
I am using JTable in that I am using custom TextField
as a Editor Component. Now I want to trap the first
key pressed in the textfield.what do you want it for?
[.. usual l aproaches snipped ]
The reason this is not working is that JTable uses a very uncommon way to route this first keyEvent: it comes via Jtable.processKeyBindings which first tries to start the edit with it (buggily "forgetting" to pass the keyEvent along...) and if this started the edit it will pass both keyStroke and keyEvent to the editorComponent's processKeyBindings. At his time the editorComponent is part of the container hierarchy.
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