Name: dbT83986 Date: 03/27/99


In early swing, JButtons fired its ActionEvent on a return
key press when it had the focus. Then, it did not and I
subclassed the button to add this functionality back in.
Later, it was added again so I had to take that feature out
of my subclass. Now, it does not work again.

I have never noticed JCheckBoxes and JRadioButtons to have
this behaviour (performing a doClick() when the return
key was pressed), but it seems like they should. Mice are used
for about everything now, but it is often handy to have the
keys to do things like this so one can easily tab around the
screen and do stuff.
Maybe the KeyListener should be added to AbstractButton and call
doClick() whenever a return key (VK_ENTER) is pressed on it.

Incidently, I tried to see the behaviour in Windows apps on NT
and the return key usually closes the dialog and does not select
on a check box. This was not what I suspected for some reason.
Still, I like the feature.
(Review ID: 56158)
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Name: krT82822 Date: 01/25/2000


(see also 4227751 -> 4224702, 4235294)

java full version "JDK-1.2.2-002"

When a JButton has focus, you can press the Enter key on Windows to press the
button. On Solaris, this does not work. Only the space bar will press the
button. We are using the Java (Metal) look and feel, and expect it to behave
the same on all platforms. Specifically, we would like the Enter key to press
the button on Solaris, just as it does on Windows. You can reproduce this
problem by using the button tab in the SwingSet demo.
(Review ID: 100070)
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