Sending keyevents to JTextField programatically.

Question

Hi All,
Can anybody let me know how do I sent key event to a text field programatically. I want to send all keystrokes in the keyboard (including ENTER, ESCAPE,letters,numbers etc) to a textfield.
I tried something like this and it didn't work. No exception is thrown, but the characters does not appear in the target field.
int kcf = KeyEvent.VK_UNDEFINED;
char kcharf = '9';
KeyEvent event = new KeyEvent(_mTarget,
     KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED, System.currentTimeMillis(), 0,
     kcf, kcharf);
try {
      java.lang.reflect.Field f =
          AWTEvent.class.getDeclaredField("focusManagerIsDispatching");
          f.setAccessible(true);
          f.set(event, Boolean.TRUE);
   catch(Exception exp) {
        System.err.println(exp);
   _mTarget.dispatchEvent(event);Please help me to resolve the problem. My main purpose is to write a virtual keypad.
Thanks
Deekshit M

Answer 1

Maybe create a custom EventQueue:
EventQueue queue = new EventQueue()
     protected void dispatchEvent(AWTEvent event)
          if (event.getID() == KeyEvent.KEY_TYPED
          ||  event.getID() == KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED
          ||  event.getID() == KeyEvent.KEY_RELEASED)
               // create new KeyEvent and dispatch it to your text field
          else
               super.dispatchEvent(event);
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemEventQueue().push(queue);