[ jEdit-devel ] [ jedit-Bugs-1023137 ] Menus and shortcuts have lots of problems on Mac OS X

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Bugs item #1023137, was opened at 2004-09-06 11:29
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Category: editor core
Group: normal bug
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Peter Eastman (peastman)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Menus and shortcuts have lots of problems on Mac OS X

Initial Comment:
I have just upgraded from 4.1 to 4.2 (final).  When I did so, lots of 
problems appeared related to pulldown menus:

- Menu shortcuts only work if the focus is on the main text area 
when I type them.  If any other part of the window (such as the 
console) has focus, the shortcut is simply ignored.

- It is impossible to create most shortcuts that involve the control 
key.  In the Specify Shortcut window, if I type control plus any 
letter, it is simply ignored.  Curiously, this only applies to letters.  
Shortcuts involving other characters (numbers, punctuation 
symbols) and the control key CAN be entered.

- Occassionally, all of the pulldown menus disappear from the 
menubar except the Apple and jEdit menus.  The rest of the 
menubar is blank.  If I then click anywhere in the menubar, they 
immediately reappear.  But I can't actually select anything from 
any of them (either with the mouse or by using a shortcut).  At this 
point, the only thing I can do is force quit jEdit.

This is on Mac OS X 10.3.5 with Java 1.4.2 update 1 installed.

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>Comment By: Slava Pestov (spestov)
Date: 2005-02-23 14:37

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The control key problem is fixed in 4.3. The other problems
are MacOS/Java bugs.

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Comment By: john manoogian III (jm3)
Date: 2004-10-25 23:22

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> It is impossible to create most shortcuts that involve the
control
> key. In the Specify Shortcut window, if I type control
plus any
> letter, it is simply ignored. Curiously, this only applies
to letters.
> Shortcuts involving other characters (numbers, punctuation
> symbols) and the control key CAN be entered.

i would like to expand upon this -- the motion keys also do
not work when modified with option, OR control. not being
able to rebind the motion keys in a programmer's editor is a
pretty major issue for me, especially since jedit completely
ignores both macos standard key-binding conventions
(option-right  is fwd-word, cmd-right is end-of-line, etc.),
emacs keybindings, and vi keybindings.

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Comment By: Trevor Harmon (vocaro)
Date: 2004-09-06 13:21

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> Menu shortcuts only work if the focus is on the main text area
> when I type them.  If any other part of the window (such as
> the console) has focus, the shortcut is simply ignored.

This is a known regression between jEdit 4.1 and 4.2. It has not 
been fixed. See this thread for more information: http://
sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9109472

> Occassionally, all of the pulldown menus disappear from the 
> menubar except the Apple and jEdit menus.  The rest of the 
> menubar is blank.  If I then click anywhere in the menubar, 
they 
> immediately reappear.  But I can't actually select anything 
from 
> any of them (either with the mouse or by using a shortcut).  
At this 
> point, the only thing I can do is force quit jEdit.
 
I've seen this problem occasionally, too. I believe it is the fault 
of Apple's Java 1.4.2 Update 1, because I don't remember 
seeing it before installing Update 1.


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