Hi guys,

This is quite an urgent question - software's due in 3 days time... In
Java, is there any way to get a JComponent to react to all keypresses?
ie:

this.getInputMap().put(**any key press**, "doSomething"); // KeyStroke.*
this.getActionMap().put("doSomething", myAction);

Thanks

I'll tip the answer :)

Seb Maynard

Instead of using input maps and action maps, add a key listener:

this.addKeyListener(new KeyListener() {
   public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) { /* do something */ }
   public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) { /* do something */ }
   public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) { /* do something */ }
});

you can't add a key listener to components which don't have a valid
text input field. For example, if i want to implement an input map or
action map on a JPanel, doing this with KeyListeners does nothing...

In the end, i just did a for loop for all of the keys from 0x00 to
0xFF creating actionMaps for each... seemed to work ok :)