Shortcuts in Swing? (question for pals from Apple)

[Yuri Nesterenko]

NB: I use this page for reference:
Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343

Thanks,
-yan

On 11/21/2011 11:11 PM, Alexander Potochkin wrote:
> Hello guys
>
> We have a code snippet which tests the various shortcuts in a simple
> Swing application,
> Alt+A and Alt+B are among them.
>
> It turned out that when the focus is inside a JTextArea,
> Alt+A works as expected but Alt+B types a special symbol.
>
> This behavior is different from what we have on Windows or Linux
> and our testers consider it as a bug.
>
> Is there any workarounds to suppress typing on Alt+B?
> (Alt+B + some other magic keys?)
>
> If not, is there a specification that counts the shortcuts that can't be
> mapped to the users action?
>
> By the way, how to move the focus out of a focused JTextArea on Mac?
> On windows we use Ctrl+Tab, but it doesn't work on Mac.
>
> Thanks much
> alexp
>
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