How to use Ctrl + -- or Ctrl + -- key to act as Tab or Tab + Shift

Question

In JDK 1.4, I try to use Ctrl + --> key to act as Tab key, and use Ctrl
+ <-- key to act as Tab + Shift key, I would like to find a solution
for whole application instead of adding key listener for each individual
component, how to implement it easily? Any suggustions? Thanks!

Answer 1

Not sure if this will help, but you can listen for all AWT Events by adding a AWT Listener to you class. Here is an example that listens for MouseEvents:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
class TestEventQueue extends JFrame
     public TestEventQueue()
          Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener( new AWTEventListener()
               public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent e)
                    System.out.println(e);
          }, AWTEvent.MOUSE_MOTION_EVENT_MASK + AWTEvent.MOUSE_EVENT_MASK  );
     public static void main(String[] args)
          JFrame frame = new TestEventQueue();
          frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
          frame.setSize(200, 200);
          frame.setVisible(true);
}