Listening for enterkey with any component in focus

[Gulshan Singh]

I need my program to listen for an enter keypress at a certain point, but I want it to listen for it regardless of what component is in focus. I know how to do this for a certain component, like component.addKeyListener(this), but that only captures the keypress when that component is in focus. I need the program to capture it regardless of which component is in focus.

[Rob Camick]

Generally, this is done by specify a default button for the form. Then when Enter is pressed the ActionListener association with that button will be executed. You assign the defult button using:

frame.getRootPane().setDefaultButton(...);