Want to catch key stroke events - urgent

[Issac Abbas]

Is there any way to find out the key pressed events in Java?? I am not talking about awt classes, i want to use them in my stand alone program. Specifically i want to catch the event of pressing Ctrl+C ( which is used to stop the program ) and execute some manipulations before actually shutting down my program. Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.

[Lars Vegas]

go to google and try the keyword 'GlobalHotkeyManager'. may be it's what you need, but it's with awt. i've no idea how to do it in another way.

[David Weitzman]

There's a method called addShutdownHook in java.lang.Runtime. Shutdown hooks are called when the virtual machine is shutting down -- even if the user pressed Control-C.