Use Enter key to transfer focus in Swing - Java Swing

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Use Enter key to transfer focus in Swing

Demo Code

/*/*from w w w.j av a  2s  .c  o m*/
    Strandz LGPL - an API that matches the user to the data.
    Copyright (C) 2007 Chris Murphy

    Strandz LGPL is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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 */
//package com.java2s;

import javax.swing.JComponent;

import javax.swing.KeyStroke;

import java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager;

import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

public class Main {
    /**
     * The source for this is
     * http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/focus.html
     *
     * @param control
     */
    public static void addEnterKey(JComponent control) {
        Set forwardKeys = control
                .getFocusTraversalKeys(KeyboardFocusManager.FORWARD_TRAVERSAL_KEYS);
        Set newForwardKeys = new HashSet(forwardKeys);
        newForwardKeys.add(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER, 0));
        control.setFocusTraversalKeys(
                KeyboardFocusManager.FORWARD_TRAVERSAL_KEYS, newForwardKeys);
    }
}

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