Application wide keyboard shortcut - Java Swing

Question

I would like to create an application wide keyboard shortcut for a Java Swing application. Looping over all components and adding the shortcut on each, has focus related sid

Answer 1

A little simplified example:

KeyboardFocusManager keyManager;

keyManager=KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager();
keyManager.addKeyEventDispatcher(new KeyEventDispatcher() {

  @Override
  public boolean dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent e) {
    if(e.getID()==KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED && e.getKeyCode()==27){
      System.out.println("Esc");
      return true;
    }
    return false;
  }

});