Keylistener for jPanel

[mes123]

I have a jPanel (that contains amoungst other things a jScrollPane and JTable). I'm trying to get input from a barcode reader to display in the table.

Since this GUI will run on a touch screen I don't want to have to forch the use to set the focus on the table or any sort of textfield. I just want them to be able to scan an item with the barcode scanner and trap the data (the barcode scanner can be thought of as just a keyboard).

Is there a way of attaching a keyListener to the jPanel so that it can accept keyboad input? I can make the table and scrollpane non focusable then (I don;t really want the use being able to input directly in then anyhow)

Thanks in advance.

 

[sedj]

please do not post non-J2EE questions in this forum (your profile says you know where the Java forum is)

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[mes123]

sorry sedj, I looked at both forums but couldn't decide which one this falls under. (I'll repost it in the correct place now).

What is the destinction between the two?

 

[sedj]

This forum is only meant to be for J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) - ie questions about J2EE related technologies - EJB, JMS, JTA etc.

The other forum269 is meant for standard J2SE (Standard Edition) questions - ie all the core APIs like Swing, IO, collections etc.

Cheers

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