JTextArea Tab Traversal Behavior
by Andrew Kroh
I found that the JTextArea has a very annoying behavior when you try to tab traverse through a form that contains one. Once you tab traverse into the JTextArea you cannot tab traverse out of it because pressing TAB just inserts an actual tab character. In order to tab traverse to the next component you must press CTRL+TAB.
My desired behavior for the JTextArea is to be able to use TAB and SHIFT+TAB to traverse forward and backward, repectively, through a form and to use CTRL+TAB to insert an actual tab character. By resetting the focus traversal keys and re-mapping some input keys this can be accomplished in Java. Below is the code for doing so.
Figure 1: Screen Shot of Demo Application
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