Re: Am I using the InputMap and the ActionMap correctly?

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associateLookup(ExplorerUtils.createLookup(em, getActionMap()));

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With kind regards, markiewb

2016-05-25 15:42 GMT+02:00 Klaus Martinschitz <[email protected]>:

> 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());
>     }
>
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>
> 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
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