[ jEdit-devel ] [ jedit-Plugin Bugs-3615050 ] SmartOpen only lets me type one letter (MacOS L&F)

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Plugin Bugs item #3615050, was opened at 2013-09-24 16:29
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Jonathan Aquino (jonathanaquino)
Assigned to: Alan Ezust (ezust)
Summary: SmartOpen only lets me type one letter (MacOS L&F)

Initial Comment:
Repro steps:
1. Open the Smart Open dialog.
2. Start typing.

// Expected: You can type a word.
// Actual: You can only type a single letter. If you type additional letters, they overwrite the first letter. Only one letter remains.
Video of the issue: http://screencast.com/t/r9HEQNa5

This happens on jEdit 5.0.0 and 5.1.0 with SmartOpen 1.1, Mac OS X 10.8.5, Java 1.6.0_51.

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>Comment By: Jonathan Aquino (jonathanaquino)
Date: 2013-09-25 10:41

Message:
Thanks ezust!

Actually, searchField.setCaret(new DefaultCaret()); should probably come
after this line:
searchField = new JTextField(50);

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Comment By: Alan Ezust (ezust)
Date: 2013-09-25 10:38

Message:
And this is in commoncontrols not smartopen anyway.

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Comment By: Alan Ezust (ezust)
Date: 2013-09-25 10:37

Message:
Pretty sure kpouer doesn't have a mac, so I will assign to myself. 

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Comment By: Jonathan Aquino (jonathanaquino)
Date: 2013-09-25 10:34

Message:
Yes, the problem goes away using the Metal look and feel.

I think I have a fix - see my previous comment.

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Comment By: Jonathan Aquino (jonathanaquino)
Date: 2013-09-25 10:33

Message:
I think the problem may be that ItemFinderPanel.MyDocumentListener calls
requestFocusWorker - see source in
https://jedit.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jedit/plugins/CommonControls/trunk/common/gui/itemfinder/ItemFinderPanel.java

According to
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1543480/mac-lf-problems-differing-behavior-of-jtextfield-requestfocus
requestFocus() selects all the text, according to some Mac users.

So to repro, you might need to use the Mac OS X look-and-feel.

In that stackoverflow thread, one of the comments suggests a workaround
like the following:
searchField.setCaret(new DefaultCaret());

Could you try putting that after searchField.requestFocus(); in
RequestFocusWorker?

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Comment By: Alan Ezust (ezust)
Date: 2013-09-25 10:32

Message:
I switched to MacOS look and feel, and now I can reproduce the problem. 
If you do Global Options - Appearance - Look and Feel - Metal - does the
problem go away?


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Comment By: Jonathan Aquino (jonathanaquino)
Date: 2013-09-25 10:21

Message:
I'm also using a U.S. keyboard (according to System Preferences > Language
& Text > Input Sources).

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Comment By: Alan Ezust (ezust)
Date: 2013-09-24 17:15

Message:
Tried to reproduce w/ macosx 10.8.5, java 1.6, and jedit 5.1 but it does
not reproduce for me. English/US keyboard.
What nationality of keyboard are you using? Any special input methods
enabled? 

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