Swing: how do I close a dialog when the ESC key is pressed?

Question

GUI development with Swing.

I have a custom dialog for choosing a file to be opened in my application; its class extends javax.swing.JDialog and contain

Answer 1

You can use the following snippet. This is better because the rootPane will get events from any component in the dialog. You can replace setVisible(false) with dispose() if you want.

public static void addEscapeListener(final JDialog dialog) {
    ActionListener escListener = new ActionListener() {

        @Override
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            dialog.setVisible(false);
        }
    };

    dialog.getRootPane().registerKeyboardAction(escListener,
            KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_ESCAPE, 0),
            JComponent.WHEN_IN_FOCUSED_WINDOW);

}