<AWT Dev> [13] Review Request: 8214469 [macos] PIT: java/awt/Choice/ChoiceKeyEventReaction/ChoiceKeyEventReaction.java fails

[semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com]

On 6/4/19 4:56 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:

> On 04/06/2019 09:50, semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com wrote:
>> Taking into account the above, that states all 3 platforms have 
>> different behavior, what makes you think that it is a test issue?
>
> Because the test assumes that we have only two toolkit implementations 
> platforms Windows and Unix, and it checks that all non-windows 
> platforms should work like the motif components.
>
The test may wrongly assume this, but why the behavior depends on the 
platform I don't understand what is fundamental reason for that?
The key event, if created, can be redirected to any component. Either I 
see no obstacles to disable popup when the combo-box is not allowed to 
receive the input focus. It is not a big deal to unify that one way or 
another.