Which components catch a key-event?

Hello,
I've a question. I've a panel with severall sub-panels with textfield-editors. These have listeners to respond on a enter-key pressed event.
When I input an illegal value somewhere, I invoke a messagedialog with a warning message. The problem is that when I press enter , the oke-button of the messagepane has the focus, the enter-key pressed event is also caught by my first panel with all the editors and shows the same message dialog again. Kinda like a loop.
I thought that key-pressed event only where caught by the component/frame which has the focus, or am I wrong.
Can anyone help me out here?
Much Thanks
Hugo Hendriks

Normally an ActionListener is installed to an OK button, not a KeyListener. Check if you have implemented the same error handling in two places!
Generally you can "eat" key events by e.consume(), maybe this helps:
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
if (e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_ENTER) {
// ... do some error handling on ENTER
e.consume();
I think then the Frame GUI will no get the key event anymore. A modal JDialog has a local event queue (to be modal), but maybe it forwards events to the main queue ...

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