Shortcuts in Swing? (question for pals from Apple) (original) (raw)

Alexander Potochkin Alexander.Potochkin at oracle.com
Mon Nov 21 11:11:03 PST 2011

Hello guys

We have a code snippet which tests the various shortcuts in a simple Swing application, Alt+A and Alt+B are among them.

It turned out that when the focus is inside a JTextArea, Alt+A works as expected but Alt+B types a special symbol.

This behavior is different from what we have on Windows or Linux and our testers consider it as a bug.

Is there any workarounds to suppress typing on Alt+B? (Alt+B + some other magic keys?)

If not, is there a specification that counts the shortcuts that can't be mapped to the users action?

By the way, how to move the focus out of a focused JTextArea on Mac? On windows we use Ctrl+Tab, but it doesn't work on Mac.

Thanks much alexp