Key listeners without a component?

Hey guys,
So I have an application with several sliders, buttons, etc. and I would like to set shortcuts for certain parts of it. For example, when the user presses the "n" key, one of the sliders should increase in value. I have looked into this, and found that key listeners only work on a component that has the keyboard focus. Does this mean I should give my main JPanel the keyboard focus and make the shortcuts change the sliders in that listener? What happens if the focus changes from the main panel to one of the buttons and the key is then pressed, will it still call the key listener on the JPanel?
The best way would be if there was a listener that just listens to the keyboard and is called when a key is pressed, without any need for a specific component. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Thanks beforehand!
Cheers,
Lukas

Young_one wrote:
Well, the problem is I have 3 applets running on the same page, and so, they don't all have focus at the same time, but the key bindings need to work at any time, no matter which applet the user last clicked in. So I guess the question is if there is a way to create a listener that is not attached to a specific components focus. I would think that a listener that just listens to the keyboard doesn't have to specify a focus, but I guess it does? Thanks for all your help so far.Ah, I'm not an applet expert, but as far as I know, key binding and key listeners require that the app doing the listening have focus: with key listeners the component itself has to have focus, but with key binding, the component that is assigned the binding doesn't have to have focus, but at the very least the window that holds it does. I know of no way around this through standard Java.

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