#1784 Keypad doesn't work with X11

[Pierre Grimaud]

I am running jEdit on a Sun Solaris box and viewing it
through an X11R6 server running on Win2K/Cygwin.

None of the keypad keys work with jEdit (right hand side
of the keyboard)

This is extremely annoying when entering a lot of
numbers...

All the other apps (xterm, ...) works fine with it.

[Slava Pestov]

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What jEdit version? Can you post output of
Utilities-Troubleshooting-Keyboard Tester please.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Well well well....

First, my apologies for filing a bug so nebulous, with no details.

After a small investigation, it seems that none of the jEdit
versions (from 4.1 final to 4.2pre4) works with the keypad on
my system. In fact, I have not been able to run any Java
program that would accept key from the keypad on
Cygwin/XFree86 (apps running on solaris jdk 1.3 & 1.3.1).
So it could be a Java issue.

Here is the Utilities-Troubleshooting-Keyboard from my jedit 4.
2pre4:

With numlock on, no key generate anything. This seems to
prove that the bug comes from Java...
With numlock off, clicking the left arrow (for example) gives me
the following:

Event KEY_PRESSED,keyCode=0xe2,keyChar=0xffff,
modifiers=0x0 passed
==> Translated to <e2,0>
Event KEY_RELEASED,keyCode=0xe2,keyChar=0xffff,
modifiers=0x0 passed

And the cursor doesn't move...

I think the bug can be (at least) moved to a lower priority if
not closed. I don't think anybody use the keypad (with
numlock off) to move the cursor around, but I may be wrong.
Some old laptops just doesn't have anything else...

[Slava Pestov]

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<0xe2,0> is KP_LEFT. You can change the bindings for the
left/up/down/right actions to the KP_ arrows. Alternatively,
jEdit can do the mapping of KP_* to * automatically... add a
comment to the bug if you're still interested in this.