Keylistener in JPanel (moved from J2EE forum)

[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]

I'm not overly great at Swing, but I believe you need to have a generic key listener, use the JPanel.addKeyListener() method (inherited from Component), and update components in your JPanel accordingly.

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