[ jEdit-devel ] Trying to hunt MacOSX keyboard bugs

[Paul L. <pa...@ac...>]

Hi,

I am trying to hunt the MacOSX keyboard mis-behaviours in jEdit and I=20
have to say that things don't appear as easy as I hoped.

At least I can observe the following issues which seem really to be a=20
mix of several bugs:
- when reading shortcuts, jEdit seem to store the keyChar value instead=20=

of keyCode...
- when typing composite characters (such pressing, on a US keyboard,=20
ALT-e followed by e), there seems to be no way to restore these=20
characters.

Have I missed an issue ?

At least for the second, which is my greatest problem, I know that=20
MacOSX seems guilty: the keyTyped events do simply return "e" as=20
keyChar when pressing alt-e followed by e. However, the swing=20
components input... "=E9" (eacute) as expected!
To avoid this, it would be easy to use a hidden JTextField or such to=20
which events would be redirected and to read the key-typed from there.

But that would only solve point 2.

More comments welcome.

paul=