RFR: 8277369: Strange behavior of JMenuBar with RIGHT_TO_LEFT orientation, arrow keys behaves opposite traversing through keyboard [v3]

[Phil Race]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 07:37:47 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhukhan at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> After applying setComponentOrientation(ComponentOrientation.RIGHT_TO_LEFT) to the JMenuBar the arrow keys started to behave the opposite of what expected. Right arrow goes left and Left arrow goes right when trying to traverse through keyboard.
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>> Fixed to reverse the direction traversal for RTL orientation.
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> Prasanta Sadhukhan has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   fix

BTW I was just looking around and if you do a google search on "rtl arrow key backward" it looks to me as if multiple unrelated open source projects happen to have had the same issue (not SFAICT Java based) and came to the same conclusion.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7396