wow, thanks :)
I was mistaken actually: you can't pass KeyStrokes to a ctor of a JMenuItem:
you have to set it using the setAccellerator() method, but I guess you already
figured that out.
Buttons don't have accellerator keys, they just have mnemonics; read the API docs.
But if you have a menu item with a such a key, you can of course define the
same mnemonic for a button.
kind regards,
Jos