Re: [cinjug-users] JOptionPane

[Elijah Roberts <eroberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't checked recently to see if Sun has changed this, but I believe 
that what you are describing is in reality just the proper behavior for 
the metal look and feel. In metal hitting the enter key always activates 
the default button no matter which button currently has the focus. That 
is simply the way the metal interface functions. If you want Windows 
interface functionality, such as having enter activate whatever button 
currently has focus I think you will have to switch to the windows look 
and feel. I don't know of anyway off hand to change that behavior in metal.

If you are using the windows look and feel and are seeing this issue, 
please ignore my above message.

Elijah

Steve Metter wrote:

> I'm using JOptionPane to show a confirmation dialog with the
> JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION, so that the dialog appears with a Yes button and
> a No button. It works just fine when I hit either button with the mouse.
>
> I notice that when I hit the tab key, the "highlight" (the outline around
> the word "Yes") moves from the Yes button to the No button, but the bold
> outline on the Yes button does not move. This suggests to me that the tab
> key has not really changed which button is selected (although the visual
> cues are deceptive).
>
> When I hit the return key, the dialog returns as though I had hit the Yes
> button with the mouse, regardless of which button I have "tabbed" to
> (regardless of which button has the outline around the button text).
>
> I see the same behavior when I use JOptionPane.YES_NO_CANCEL_OPTION.
>
> Has anyone else noticed this behavior? Does anyone else find this confusing?
> Is there a simple fix for the behavior in which the button text is outlined
> on the button that is not the currently selected button? Is this a known
> bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
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