<AWT Dev> [10] JDK-8148344: Java robot keypress should be able to use extended key code characters as ? ? ?.

[Sergey Bylokhov]

Hi, Shashi.
On 18/04/2018 23:52, Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah wrote:
> Hi Sergey, I checked with Prashanth on the external input method. It is just same as change the locale and start input the characters in that locale. Once we change the locale it will try to install sogu or other stuffs to get those locale keys. But on the windows 10 it does not install anything but keyboard language is changed and we can start input those characters. So when I checked with input of different locale keys and found that most of them do generate the keyTyped/keyPressed/keyReleased events for the java component which is same as my implementation under this bug. Only for the Chinese input we only get the keyTyped event. I think since we provide the superset I think this problem is solved. So I think my current changes are fine so please let me know if you have any comments on it.

I assume that you checked the steps above without the changes in 
files(AWTView.m/awt_Component.cpp/ etc). So external 
InputMethods(including Chinese input) works in java applications as-is. 
And it should work for windows/linux/macos. Why we need to change these 
files (AWTView.m/awt_Component.cpp/etc) instead of generate the same 
events, as input methods, using Robot API?


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Best regards, Sergey.