Tabbing In and Out of an Editable JComboBox
Tabbing in and out of an editable JComboBox seems to be really quirky. First we need to disable the default focus traversal keys for the JComboBox editor. editor.setFocusTraversalKeysEnabled(false); Then we add a KeyListener as below : editor.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter() { @Override public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) { switch (e.getKeyCode()) { case KeyEvent.VK_TAB: int n = e.getModifiers(); if (n > 0) { comboBox.transferFocusBackward(); } else { comboBox.getEditor().getEditorComponent().transferFocus(); } e.consume(); break; } } }); Notice that to tab forward, we are using the editor component and to tab backward we are using the combobox directly. Any...