how to redirect backspace key to some other function

[danish shaikh]

Hi all,
i want to create TextEditor with track changes facility as in MSWORD 2003.
ie. whenever i delete some text they do not be physically erased instead,
the deleted text shud be displayed in some other color with strike out..
so plz help me its quite urgent.

Bye,
thanks in advance.

[Jeff Bosch]

You can define the key's action in your ActionListener actionPerformed method.

[danish shaikh]

thanks for reply, But....
i have included the code in the key event.
i also cosumed the backspace key.
now i want to edit the document but its showing me the the error msg..
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Attempt to mutate in notification
at javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument.writeLock(AbstractDocument.java:1336)
at javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument.remove(AbstractDocument.java:569)

how can i overcome this problem.

Thanks in advance.....

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