How do you make menu item (JMenuItem) shortcut?

Question

So i noticed that in awt there is a MenuItem constructor for adding a CTRL + (some key) shortcut, but there is no such constructor for JMenuItem. What is the correct way to do this?

I need an equivelent of awt:

MenuItem mi = new MenuItem("Copy", new MenuShortcut(KeyEvent.VK_C)); 

but for Swing.

Answer 1

Example for CTRL + N.

menuItem.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke('N', Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getMenuShortcutKeyMaskEx())); 

Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getMenuShortcutKeyMaskEx() returns control key (ctrl) on Windows and linux, and command key (⌘) on Mac OS.