JTabbedPane with Keyevents Options

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"pinik.smily4u@gmail.com" <pinik.smily4u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.gui
Date:
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:27:31 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<36d87bb1-1187-444e-b040-fe5add1e7538@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>
I have created a tabbedpane with 3 tabs (Tab1, Tab2, Tab3) . Mnemonic
(ALT-F) is assigned only to the Tab1.

If any of the component is selected inside the Tab2 or Tab3, it can
still traverse back to Tab1 on pressing key ALT-F.
But if any component is selected in the Tab1 itself, pressing ALT-F
will not take me back to Tab1. I have to somehow get the focus for
Tab1 too.

Here is my code. Please respond to this.
Thank you.

Note: I don't want to set Mnemonic to each Tab. Only one Mnemonic
should do my work.

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeEvent;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeListener;

public class myClass {

        public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {

            JFrame frame = new JFrame();
            frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

             JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();

            JButton button1= new JButton("Button1");
            JButton button2= new JButton("Button2");
            JPanel panel1 = new JPanel();
            panel1.add(button1);
            panel1.add(button2);

            tabbedPane.addTab("Tab1", null, panel1, null);

            JLabel label = new JLabel("Check ");
            JCheckBox cbox = new JCheckBox("check me");
            JPanel panel = new JPanel();
            panel.add(label, null);
            panel.add(cbox);

            tabbedPane.addTab("Tab2", null, panel, null);

            JButton button2 = new JButton("Button");
            tabbedPane.addTab("Tab3", null, button2, null);

             int mnemonic = KeyEvent.VK_F;

tabbedPane.setMnemonicAt(tabbedPane.getSelectedIndex(), mnemonic);

            ChangeListener changeListener = new ChangeListener() {
                public void stateChanged(ChangeEvent changeEvent) {

                    JTabbedPane tab =
(JTabbedPane)changeEvent.getSource();
                    int index = tab.getSelectedIndex();

                    if(index==0)
                   tab.requestFocus();

                  }
              };
              tabbedPane.addChangeListener(changeListener);

            frame.add(tabbedPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
            frame.setSize(400, 150);
            frame.setVisible(true);

        }

}

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