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I would like to include customizable keyboard shortcuts in my Java application (the user can change them). Since this is not very unusual request, I was wondering if there exists a library/project that could help me achieve my goal.

Unfortunately I was not able to find anything useful on Google.

Thank you, aZen

Ended up building my own shortcut manager from scratch. This took around 20h.

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  • I'm using JIDE (so yes). They have a solution, but it is not included in their Professional Suite and the Ultimate Suite is rather expensive. – aZen Jul 30 '12 at 07:31
  • I have edited your tags to make them more relevant. – assylias Jul 30 '12 at 07:54

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Shortcuts may be specified as accelerators in instances of Action. Less flexibly, shortcuts may be represented by KeyEvent instances obtained via KeyListener. Either may be stored in java.util.Preferences or javax.jnlp.BasicService, as suggested here.

I'm unaware of a general purpose library, but this game offers an RCKeys dialog to remap keys. It includes the essential functionality to preclude duplicates.

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trashgod
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I don't know of any libraries, but if your stuck you should take a look at KeyboardFocusManager & KeyboardEventDispatcher or KeyboardEventPostProcessor.

These will at least give you access to the system level key events

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  • Thank you for the advice. I know about these classes but was hoping for some kind of plug-and-play component. – aZen Jul 30 '12 at 07:37