Setting Focus Traversal Keys for the Entire Application

This example changes the focus traversal keys for the entire application. For an example of how to change the focus traversal keys for a particular component, see Setting Focus Traversal Keys in a Component.
// Change the forward focus traversal keys for the application
Set set = new HashSet(
    KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager().getDefaultFocusTraversalKeys(
        KeyboardFocusManager.FORWARD_TRAVERSAL_KEYS));
set.clear();   // Call clear() if you want to eliminate the current key set
set.add(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("F2"));
KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager().setDefaultFocusTraversalKeys(
    KeyboardFocusManager.FORWARD_TRAVERSAL_KEYS, set);

// Change the backward focus traversal keys for the application
set = new HashSet(
    KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager().getDefaultFocusTraversalKeys(
        KeyboardFocusManager.BACKWARD_TRAVERSAL_KEYS));
set.clear();   // Call clear() if you want to eliminate the current key set
set.add(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("F3"));
KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager().setDefaultFocusTraversalKeys(
    KeyboardFocusManager.BACKWARD_TRAVERSAL_KEYS, set);

// Remove all forward and backward focus traversal keys for the application
set.clear();
KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager().setDefaultFocusTraversalKeys(
    KeyboardFocusManager.FORWARD_TRAVERSAL_KEYS, set);
KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager().setDefaultFocusTraversalKeys(
    KeyboardFocusManager.BACKWARD_TRAVERSAL_KEYS, set);

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