Am I using the InputMap and the ActionMap correctly?

Hello,

till now I did not have to deal with InputMaps and ActionMaps. However, I figured out that they are really cool and can improve the code immensely.

My situation is as following:

I have designed a Swing panel in a standard plain Java project. Absolutely no connection to Netbeans Platform. It is part of a library that should also work for WebStart. So, I had my panel, I defined ActionMap and InputMap inside my JPanel and I could test the Panel with a standard JFrame architecture.

No, I want this JPanel to be child of a TopComponent. I created wrapper and all that stuff and implemented it. Everything worked perfectly. However, everything except the keybindings that didn't work anymore. I tried many solutions, until I had the idea to take the InputMap and ActionMap from the JPanel child component and put it to my TopComponent in the following method...


Code:
@Override
    public void componentActivated() {
        setActionMap(stereographicaProjectionPanel.getActionMap());
        setInputMap(WHEN_ANCESTOR_OF_FOCUSED_COMPONENT,stereographicaProjectionPanel.getInputMap());
    }




I have got two questions.
First question is, if this strategy is correct.
Second question is if there is a way to tell the TopComponent that it should merge the ActionMaps and InputMaps from its child components automatically. I am not sure if this is desired or would even cause problems. Perhaps I just understand the keybinding architecture not yet well enough.

Thanks a lot for help.

Regards,
Klaus