Problem in Tab Keys

Hi
I am trying to write a KeyListener that can detect when the tab key is pressed within a JTextField. The Listener detects all keys accept the tab key. It seems that some lower level method is consuming the key before it get to my listener.
My application needs to put up a dialog if the tabs out of the text field.
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,
Yes, there is a lower-level method that dispatches all events generated from a component and sends the events to the appropriate listener for that component.
You need to subclass JTextField and override processKeyEvent(KeyEvent key). Any type of key event generated from this component, this method will dispatch the event to all of this components key listeners, so there will be some processing that blocks the TAB key.We can override the method and perform our own processing, and then call super.processKeyEvent(KeyEvent) to handle all other key events other than TAB.
Try the below code this showa how to catch the TAB key .
class CustomTextField extends JTextField {
public CustomTextField( int c){
super(c);
protected void processKeyEvent(KeyEvent ke){
if( ke.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_TAB)
System.out.println("TAB");
//you must call this!!
super.processKeyEvent( ke);
Hope this will help you.
Anil
Developer Technical Support,
Sun Microsystems Inc,
http://www.sun.com/developers/support

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