IllegalArgumentException when running tutoria

[Anonymous]

hi,

During the tutorial when the . key is used the application crashes.
has anybody encountered a simular problem?

D:\Ontwikkeling\EGD\abbot-1.0.2>java -cp lib/costello.jar junit.extensions.abbot
.ScriptFixture doc/editor-tutorial-1.xml
.080930 11:30:31:087 abbot.script.Script.load(Script.java:431):
        Script file Untitled is empty
080930 11:30:31:087: Last message repeated 1 times
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Time: 32,843
There was 1 error:
1) D:\Ontwikkeling\EGD\abbot-1.0.2\doc\editor-tutorial-1.xml(junit.extensions.abbot.ScriptFixture)java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid key code 46 (char.)
        at abbot.tester.Robot.keyPress(Robot.java:508)
        at abbot.tester.Robot.key(Robot.java:1043)
        at abbot.tester.Robot.keyStroke(Robot.java:1083)
        at abbot.tester.Robot.keyString(Robot.java:1091)
        at abbot.tester.ComponentTester.actionKeyString(ComponentTester.java:730)
        at abbot.tester.ComponentTester.actionKeyString(ComponentTester.java:725)
        at abbot.tester.JTextComponentTester.actionEnterText(JTextComponentTester.java:31)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at abbot.script.Call.invoke(Call.java:194)
        at abbot.script.Call.runStep(Call.java:129)
        at abbot.script.Step.run(Step.java:92)
        at abbot.script.StepRunner.runStep(StepRunner.java:277)
        at abbot.script.Sequence.runStep(Sequence.java:110)
        at abbot.script.Script.runStep(Script.java:530)
        at abbot.script.StepRunner.runStep(StepRunner.java:274)
        at abbot.script.StepRunner.run(StepRunner.java:194)
        at junit.extensions.abbot.ScriptFixture.runTest(ScriptFixture.java:60)
        at junit.extensions.abbot.ScriptTestSuite.main(ScriptTestSuite.java:205)
        at junit.extensions.abbot.ScriptFixture.main(ScriptFixture.java:69)

FAILURES!!!
Tests run: 1,  Failures: 0,  Errors: 1

[Anonymous]

Some extra information.

the problem seems to be solved if i change my keyboard (currently Dutch (Belgium)) settings to English (United States) in windows xp.

this is a temporary workaround, but rather annoying if have to keep changing your Keyboard settings.