Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Trying to hunt MacOSX keyboard bugs

[Slava P. <sl...@je...>]

Can you investigate precisely why input works in JTextFields? How does=20
their key handling differ from jEdit's?

Paul Libbrecht wrote:
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> 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=
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> 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 charact=
ers.
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> Have I missed an issue ?
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> 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 keyCha=
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> when pressing alt-e followed by e. However, the swing components=20
> 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.
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> But that would only solve point 2.
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> More comments welcome.
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> paul
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