Accelerators - odd behavior

[Kevin Rushforth]

Can you add this information to the JIRA?

https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-38830

Thanks.

-- Kevin


Tomas Mikula wrote:
> Anyway, the algorithm used in KeyCharacterCombination looks odd to me.
>
> What it does is it tries to find a key code capable of producing the
> character and then compares it to the event's key code.
>
> It would make more sense to me if it took the event, converted it to a
> character it produced and then compare the characters.
>
> This way your first attempt to capture both MINUS and SUBTRACT with a
> single KeyCharacterCombination("-") would work, as well as capturing
> all of Shift-EQUALS, PLUS, ADD with a single
> KeyCharacterCombination("+").
>
> Tomas
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Tomas Mikula <tomas.mikula at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>> That doesn't explain why this isn't happening for PLUS.
>>>       
>> KeyCodeCombination(KeyCode.PLUS, KeyCombination.CONTROL_DOWN)
>>
>> is never matched. It might even be impossible to get a KEY_PRESSED
>> event with key code PLUS with English keyboard layout. When I switch
>> keyboard layout to Slovak, which has the '+' sign accessible without
>> Shift, I do get the runnable fired twice.
>>
>> Best,
>> Tomas
>>