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Keyboard control of the java.awt

This isn't a Mac-specific java problem, but there may be a Mac-specific solution and anyway some of you may welcome a break from coding over the weekend to tell me that what I want to do is either simple or impossible.

What I want to do is to have keyboard control as an alternative to clicking on a custom button (i.e. canvas coord-specified area) or a awt Choice radio-button to implement the code that these would initiate. For example, I might want to use some of the F-keys as alternatives to choices or command-i as an alternative to clicking on an area to get info.

Now I already know how to use the modifier keys (option, command, control) working on a canvas, and I know how to add a KeyListener to a text area to get it to respond to 'enter'. What I cannot manage to do is add a KeyListener to a canvas or a panel with buttons set in a layout structure ultimately in a frame.

I tried a cut-down version of the 1.1 example in Flangan's 'Java Examples in a Nutshell', which works on an app with a graphic layout of just an awt Frame. (This involves enableEvents(AWTEvent.KEY_EVENT_MASK) and processKeyEvent(KeyEvent e)) and that worked fine, but failed as soon as I added a component to the Frame. There's no example of this in Geary either.

Easy? Possible? Hopeless? (or a book recommendation)

David
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