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Detecting the TAB key

843807Nov 2 2002 — edited Nov 5 2002

With a recent release of Java, a KeyListener no longer detects the TAB key, which is now apparently considered to be a focus event, not a keyboard event. It is critical to our application, a terminal emulator, that we be able to detect TAB and SHIFT-TAB. I read somewhere about a work-around involving a FocusListener, but a FocusListener does not report when the TAB key is pressed. Can somebody help me here?

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