Jtabbed pane is listening to the keyboard, how do i stop?

Question

hello
this is probobly a simple Swing problem. i have a j3d canvas inside a tabbed pane with other info on other panes. i need the keyboard to listen on the canvas so i can move around the j3d world, but the left and right are being detected by the jtabbed pane, but i didnt add any listen to those. how can i stop this behavior from occuring? its very annoying.
i appreciate any help you can lend..

Answer 1

The reason it is responding to keyboard events is becuase it has the focus. Request focus on the component in the tab, and the tabbed pane should stop responding. If that doesn't work, try this:
JTabbedPane tabbed = new JTabbedPane();
KeyStroke[] keys = tabbed.getRegisteredKeyStrokes();
for (int i=0; i<keys.length; i++) {
int code = keys.getKeyCode();
if (code == KeyEvent.VK_LEFT || code == KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT) {
tabbed.unregisterKeyboardAction(keys[i]);