Adding KeyListeners to JOptionPane

[heat84]

I want to customise JOptionPane and add a KeyListener to it. I want to behave in a certain manner when the enter key is pressed , but from the look of things, the key listener I am adding to the JDialog is not working. The code is running and not giving errors but when it comes to printing the statements, when I press enter , nothing is happening .

Can anyone help on this one?

JOptionPane  pane=new JOptionPane("AAAA",JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE,JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION);
 
         JDialog dialog = pane.createDialog(this, "AAAA");       
         dialog.setVisible(true);  
         dialog.addKeyListener (new KeyAdapter () {
            public void keyPressed(KeyEvent ke){
                char c = ke.getKeyChar ();
                 if ( (c == KeyEvent.VK_ENTER)) {
                     System.out.println("Enter has been pressed");
                 }
 
            }
             public void keyTyped (KeyEvent ke) {
                 char c = ke.getKeyChar ();
                 if ( (c == KeyEvent.VK_ENTER)) {
                     System.out.println("Enter has been typed");
                 }                 
             }
 

[JosAH]

When you set a modal dialog to visible it blocks the current thread until its
execution terminates, iow: you're setting your keylistener after the party is over.

Why are you using such low level events anyway?

kind regards,

Jos

[heat84]

When you set a modal dialog to visible it blocks the current thread until its
execution terminates, iow: you're setting your keylistener after the party is over.

Why are you using such low level events anyway?

kind regards,

Jos

Will it maintain the modal nature when I create a dialog from the pane? What other options are there besides using the KeyAdapter or the KeyListener for event listening ?

[heat84]

Thank JosAh , I have discovered where I was missing it.