JTable overrides the accelerator on JMenuItem

Question

I have a JFrame which has a JMenu. Some of the menu items have accelerators associated with them. And the JFrame has a JTable. The accelerators are working only when the focus is not in the JTable. But they are not working when the focus is in JTable. For example, when I selected a row in the table and press the accelerator key, it is not working. Can somebody provide me the solution for it?

Answer 1

Here is the code:
public class SwingEventPropagationTest {
     private static final int shortcutKeyAsciiValue = 65; //A
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          final JFrame frame = new JFrame();
          JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
          JMenu menu = new JMenu("Edit");
          JMenuItem menuItem = new JMenuItem("Test");
          KeyStroke ctrlAKeyStroke = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(shortcutKeyAsciiValue, InputEvent.CTRL_MASK);
          menuItem.setAccelerator(ctrlAKeyStroke);
          menuItem.addActionListener(new SelectAllAction());
          menu.add(menuItem);
          menuBar.add(menu);
          frame.setJMenuBar(menuBar);
          final JTable table = new JTable(new NumericTableModel());
          //Remove Keybindings from table
          table.getInputMap().put(ctrlAKeyStroke, "doNothing");
          table.getActionMap().put("doNothing", new DoNothingAction());
          JScrollPane scrollpane = new JScrollPane(table);
          JPanel panel = new JPanel();
          panel.add(new JButton("test"));
          panel.add(scrollpane);
          frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
          frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          frame.setSize(500,500);
          frame.setVisible(true);
     private static class NumericTableModel extends AbstractTableModel{
          public int getColumnCount() { return 2; }
          public int getRowCount() { return 10;}
          public Object getValueAt(int row, int col) {
               int value = (row*2) + (col+1);
               return value;
     private static class SelectAllAction extends AbstractAction{
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
               //This should be shown when Shortcut Key is pressed
               JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Worked");
     private static class DoNothingAction extends AbstractAction{
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
               //do nothing
}