JTextPane key bindings override JMenuItem accelerators

hi all,
I have a JTextPane subclass, sitting on a JPanel, sitting on a JFrame which has a JMenu attached. One of my menu commands has an accelerator PgDn... I am trying to disable the PgDn default behaviour in the JTextPane so that the keystroke then "falls through" and activates the menu item...
NOTHING WORKS! Using Keymap and InputMap, have tried "remove", have tried setting the action to "none", etc... it is simple enough to stop PgDn default behaviour in JTextPane, and if I looked into it I could probably explicitly put the action of the menu item in the action map of the JTextPane... but I want to cancel the key binding so that the system looks elsewhere and finds the JMenuItem accelerator...! is this too much to ask??
I am a big user of hotkeys in apps and I want to understand more about all this stuff... how come there are no fewer than 4 generations of InputMap associated with a single JTextPane, for example?
Thanks
Mike

Hi,
Thanks for this... very useful clue... In fact JTextPane itself does handle the PgDn key binding, causing the insertion point to move to the end of the multiline text.
But I followed your suggestion, finding that it is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the vertical Jscrollbar which (otherwise) handles PgDn, causing a scroll down... and a little experimenting finds that this scrollbar is created not on the fly, but once for each JScrollPane...
So I also remove the vertical JScrollBar's key binding for "PgDn" (listing the bindings before and after removal) and... it STILL refuses to work!
So I thought: aha, maybe by some anomaly you have a PgDn binding in the horizontal scrollbar... turns out it seems to share the same input map (actually the parent of the JScrollBar's getInputMap()) as the vertical scrollbar... so no, this doesn't work either!
I also checked out scrollpane's viewport... 0 keys in getInputMap() and the latter does not have parent...
Your suggestion looks like a very promising avenue... somewhere there is something trapping this key, but what? NB when a JButton, for example, is placed on the JPanel, and focus is on the button, PgDn activates the JMenuItem accelerator as expected, so it's obviously sthg to do with the complexity of having a JScrollPane combination
Anything else you can suggest? I really don't want to have to explicitly put an action in the JTextPane... I like to understand, and I like elegant solutions...
Thanks,
Mike

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          getInputMap(JPanel.WHEN_IN_FOCUSED_WINDOW).put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("LEFT"), leftAction.getValue(Action.NAME));
          getActionMap().put(leftAction.getValue(Action.NAME), leftAction);
     class DownAction extends AbstractAction {
          private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
          public DownAction(String text, String desc) {
               super(text);
               putValue(SHORT_DESCRIPTION, desc);
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
               JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Down");
     class UpAction extends AbstractAction {
          private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
          public UpAction(String text, String desc) {
               super(text);
               putValue(SHORT_DESCRIPTION, desc);
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
               JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Up");
     class RightAction extends AbstractAction {
          private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
          public RightAction(String text, String desc) {
               super(text);
               putValue(SHORT_DESCRIPTION, desc);
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
               JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Right");
     class LeftAction extends AbstractAction {
          private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
          public LeftAction(String text, String desc) {
               super(text);
               putValue(SHORT_DESCRIPTION, desc);
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
               JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Left");
}When you run that, click Load Character, then just click OK. If you press the arrow keys, corresponding alerts should come up. Now, if you rerun the program, and edit the JPasswordField in any way, then click OK, if you press the arrow keys, nothing happens. Somehow, by editing the password field, key bindings get messed up.
Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix it?

Eh, I hate it when this happens, but I figured it out not long after I posted this. Sorry.
The problem was the Load Character screen was not being removed properly due to bad technique that I got from a source on Google. So the password field, which (if I understand properly) disables key bindings for security when it has the focus, or something along those lines, was not allowing the key bindings to happen.
To see further evidence, try editing the password field, then place the cursor in the top field (that says "Default") and click OK. It works.
Anyway, to fix the above code, I just changed the cases of TestLoadCharacterPanel.this (which didn't make any sense anyway) to this, which I didn't think would work, since it's an embedded class. But it did.
Sorry for the pointless post.

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