Use Cmd instead of Ctrl on Mac (Swing)

[Hendrik Maryns]

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Hi,

Although modern Macs do have a Ctrl key now, it is custom to use the Cmd
key for keyboard shortcuts. My Swing app contains a lot of actions that
have the following:

openAction.putValue(Action.NAME, "Open…");
openAction.putValue(Action.ACCELERATOR_KEY,
KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_O, InputEvent.CTRL_DOWN_MASK));
openAction.putValue(Action.MNEMONIC_KEY, KeyEvent.VK_O);

and then are registered in a menu. This makes the accelerator key
available automatically, as well as centralizing all information about
the menu.

Is there a general trick to tell Swing that when it is running on an
Apple, it should use Cmd for the accelerator key instead of Ctrl?

Cheers, H.
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Hendrik Maryns
http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~hendrik/
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[Jan Thomä]

Although modern Macs do have a Ctrl key now, it is custom to use the Cmd
key for keyboard shortcuts.

This link should tell you how to do so:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2007/May/msg00243.html

Best regards,
Jan