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Hi,
Can anyone tell me what class to use to create shortcut keys?
Example: If I have a button named "Go", and I want to create a shortcut with Alt G. How do I do this? Thanks in advance!!!

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Barry,
If you are doing this in Swing it is built in... just do:

In the code above it is actually the g key and not Alt-G that "presses" the button... but this is the easiest way to do it.
If, on the other hand, you have your heart set on Alt-G, or you are using the AWT components, you will need to define a KeyListener for your components and test for an Alt-G combination. (Probably with a case statement that goes through all the keys you use and calls a method that is also called by the buttons ActionListener...)
HTH,
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Thanks Nathan. I will try it!
 
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