Tab not changing focus in a JTextArea

Question

Hi
I am writing a little program that at a certain point uses a JTextArea. What bugs me a lot is that the JTextArea keeps focus when I press the Tab button
I see two solutions to this.
Either I extend JTextArea into MyJTextArea and override the processKeyEvent method and from there address the processKeyEvent method from JTextComponent class
so the processKeyEvent method from JTextArea never gets a chance at catching the tab.
The second solution would be to once again extend the JTextArea class and override the processKeyEvent method, and in the method check whether tab was pressed, and in that case change the focus myself
I don't know if the first is possible, but the second should work. I'm actually rather curious about the first one. So if anyone can help me out in either addressing the super-superclass of MyJTextArea or in changing the focus manually without creating too much of a fuss, I'd be very, very thankfull
Thx in advance!
Pieter

Answer 1

the previous post it's rigth, you can leave the JTextArea using ctrl+tab, but if you really need pass the focus out of the JTextArea with only press tab you can do something like this     myTextArea.setDocument(new PlainDocument() {
          public void insertString(int offs, String str, AttributeSet a) throws BadLocationException {
              if (str.equalsIgnoreCase("\t"))
                    FocusManager.getCurrentManager().focusNextComponent(myTextArea);
               else
                    super.insertString(offs, str, a);
     }); hope this helps
lalo s.