Package com.intellij.ui

Interface ComponentWithMnemonics

All Known Implementing Classes:

InternalDecorator

public interface ComponentWithMnemonics

Markup interface with two purposes:

1. To find components with mnemonics (root components) in JLayeredPane (balloons, etc..)
2. To mark visual 'scopes' inside IDE frame and prevent a collision between mnemonics and shortcuts

As for the second purpose:

In terms of Swing 'scope' for mnemonic is whole RootPaneContainer like JFrame of JDialog but main IDE frame is too complex and cannot be considered as 'single UI'. So there should be some user-friendly 'scopes' or 'contexts'.

For example, in focused editor global action with some alt+{char} shortcut is more preferable than the same alt+{char} mnemonic presented inside tool window (and vise versa, when focus comes to the tool window namely mnemonic is expected to be more preferable).