Hotkey/Shortcut for JButton

enter, hotkeys, java, shortcut, swing

Solution

I had the same issue: I have a form an whenever I am edditing a field I want to press enter for it to fire the actionPerformed event.

I fixed it with this: The `JPanel` the button and the rest of the form is located on is called `content`: `content.getRootPane().setDefaultButton(enterButton);`

This keeps the button always selected so when you press enter, its corresponding actionPerformed event fires (remember to add an ActionListener to it!)

Hope this helps you!

Kind regards, Héctor

Problem

I have the following code of JButton in Java: ``` enterButton = new JButton("Enter"); enterButton.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER); // Shortcut: Alt + Enter ``` The question is simply: Instead of having the shortcut "Alt+Enter", how do I set a shortcut "Enter"? I simply prefer pressing "Enter" instead of holding "Alt" and pressing "Enter"

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