Problem in Shift button keyPressed event

[Avani Joshi]

Hi,
I have a problem during the shift key presse event on the text box. Whenever I press Shift + 8 key the key that is displayed is Shift + *. But I want Shift + 8 to be displayed. Can anyone please tell me the solution to this problem.

- Thanks in advance
[ October 08, 2008: Message edited by: Rob Prime ]

[Maneesh Godbole]

Originally posted by Avani Joshi:
Hi,
I have a problem during the shift key presse event on the text box. Whenever I press Shift + 8 key the key that is displayed is Shift + *. But I want Shift + 8 to be displayed. Can anyone please tell me the solution to this problem.

- Thanks in advance

What do you mean Shift+* is "displayed". Are you trapping and processing the key events? If so, how? There is no KeyEvent.VK_* . You should be trapping and processing it based on KeyEvent.VK_8

I want S**t + 8 to be displayed

This one made me laugh
[ October 08, 2008: Message edited by: Rob Prime ]

[Rob Spoor]

Fixed the typo. It can be offensive to people you know.

As Maneesh said, there is no * key. On most keyboards * simply is Shift+8 and nothing else. On other keyboards it will be a similar combination.

[Avani Joshi]

Hi,
I think you both have miss understtod my question. Maybe I have not explained my problem properly. I will try again.

As in all applications we have short cut keys like Ctrl+F for find dialog to open. Like wise I want these shortcut keys to be user defined in my application. The user will get a window wherein he can can enter his own short cut key for a particular operation to be performed.

I am doing the above functionality in Swing. So I have used a textbox for the user to enter his desired key. Using the keypress event of the textbox I am able to capture all the keys entered by the user and display it on the textBox. I am capturing the Ctrl, Alt and Shift keys using the isControlDown() etc of the InputEvent class.

Now the problem that I am facing is whenever the user presses Shift and 5 simulatenously the text that is getting on the textbox is Shift+%. This is the case with Shift key onl but when the user presses Ctrl+5 the text that is displayed is Ctrl+5. The problem with Shift is that it behaving according to its default behaviour.

Is there any way I can override this behaviour so that when user presses Shift and 5 simultaneously the text that is placed is displayed is Shift+5 and not Shift+%.

I hope that I have made my problem clear. Please let me know if you have any solution to this problem.

-Thanks in advance
[ October 10, 2008: Message edited by: Avani Joshi ]

[Maneesh Godbole]

Originally posted by Avani Joshi:
Is there any way I can override this behaviour so that when user presses Shit and 5 simultaneously the text that is placed is displayed is Shift+5 and not Shift+%.

Easiest approach would be to intercept the key events, process them, and then set the appropriate text in the text box.

[Avani Joshi]

I have tried processing it but still it does not work.
I have tried using the following if condition

// if the shift key is pressed
if (e.isShiftDown()) {
// if its numeric value from 0 to 9
if (keyCode >= 48 && keyCode <= 57) {
jTextField1.setText("Shift+ " + KeyEvent.getKeyText(keyCode));

The output i am getting is Shift+5% . It does print Shift+5 but along with the special character. I am not getting any way of removing the special character. I have tried hardcoding the values but still it giving the same results.
Is there any other way for doing the same?

-Thanks in advance

[ October 10, 2008: Message edited by: Avani Joshi ]
[ October 10, 2008: Message edited by: Avani Joshi ]

[Rob Spoor]

Originally posted by Avani Joshi:
I if (keyCode >= 48 && keyCode <= 57)

You can also use KeyEvent.VK_0 and KeyEvent.VK_9 instead of 48 and 57 for clarity. Also, '0' and '9' (the characters) can be used.

The output i am getting is Shift+5% . It does print Shift+5 but along with the special character. I am not getting any way of removing the special character. I have tried hardcoding the values but still it giving the same results.
Is there any other way for doing the same?

Can't you make the text field uneditable?

[Maneesh Godbole]

Also check out

 InputEvent#consume()

[Avani Joshi]

Thanks Maneesh and Rob for your help. The solution of making the textfield uneditable is working for me. Once again thanks a lot for your help.