Mac OSX and German Keyboard Layout (Y/Z)

[Tom Schindl]

Hi Kevin,

I filed https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8150709

Tom

On 26.02.16 02:39, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Please file a bug so we can look at it.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Kevin
> 
> 
> Tom Schindl wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Anyone any insights? Any Swing Savy dev around who knows how Swing
>> manages to deliver the right key?
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On 22.01.16 13:30, Tom Schindl wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just discovered that the KeyCode reported by JavaFX on OS-X with a
>>> german keyboard layout (where eg z and y are interchanged) is wrong.
>>>
>>> If you press a Z you get as the KeyCode.Y and for Y you get KeyCode.Z -
>>> this Y/Z problem. I don't think that I as a java-dev need to deal with
>>> that and if you look at other toolkits (swing, swt) they handle this
>>> transparently for me!
>>>
>>> I've attached you a javafx and swing application and you'll notice that
>>> swing reports always the correct keycode (no matter if my keyboard
>>> layout is english or german) and javafx is wrong on german keyboards.
>>>
>>>
>>> FX:
>>>     
>>>> package application;
>>>>
>>>> import javafx.application.Application;
>>>> import javafx.scene.Scene;
>>>> import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
>>>> import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
>>>> import javafx.stage.Stage;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> public class Main extends Application {
>>>> 	@Override
>>>> 	public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
>>>> 		try {
>>>> 			BorderPane root = new BorderPane();
>>>>
>>>> 			TextField f = new TextField();
>>>> 			f.setOnKeyPressed( e -> {
>>>> 				System.err.println("KeyCode: " + e.getCode());
>>>> 			});
>>>>
>>>> 			root.setCenter(f);
>>>>
>>>> 			Scene scene = new Scene(root,400,400);
>>>> 			primaryStage.setScene(scene);
>>>> 			primaryStage.show();
>>>> 		} catch(Exception e) {
>>>> 			e.printStackTrace();
>>>> 		}
>>>> 	}
>>>>
>>>> 	public static void main(String[] args) {
>>>> 		launch(args);
>>>> 	}
>>>> }
>>>>       
>>> Swing:
>>>     
>>>> package application;
>>>>
>>>> import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
>>>> import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
>>>>
>>>> import javax.swing.JFrame;
>>>> import javax.swing.JTextField;
>>>>
>>>> public class SampleSwing extends JFrame {
>>>> 	public SampleSwing() {
>>>> 		JTextField textField = new JTextField();
>>>> 		textField.addKeyListener(new KeyListener() {
>>>>
>>>> 			@Override
>>>> 			public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
>>>> 				// TODO Auto-generated method stub
>>>>
>>>> 			}
>>>>
>>>> 			@Override
>>>> 			public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
>>>> 				// TODO Auto-generated method stub
>>>>
>>>> 			}
>>>>
>>>> 			@Override
>>>> 			public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
>>>> 				System.err.println((char)e.getKeyCode());
>>>> 			}
>>>> 		});
>>>> 		getContentPane().add(textField);
>>>> 	}
>>>>
>>>> 	public static void main(String[] args) {
>>>> 		new SampleSwing().setVisible(true);
>>>>
>>>> 	}
>>>> }
>>>>       
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>     
>>
>>
>>   


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