Set F1 as the shortcut to a help menu

[oontvoo]

Hi,
I was making a menu bar for my JFrame, which contains a menu item named "Help".

I'm wondering how to make F1 a shortcut to that menu item. I thought of using .setAccelorator()., but that didn't seem to work.
So can you show me how?

Thanks!

[dlorde]

I'm wondering how to make F1 a shortcut to that menu item. I thought of using .setAccelorator()., but that didn't seem to work.

Setting an accelerator on the action should work - that's what they're for. Show us the code you tried that doesn't work.

You could set a mnemonic (see Menu - Enabling Keyboard Operation), but that's not quite the same thing.

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