Mac OSX and German Keyboard Layout (Y/Z)

[Kevin Rushforth]

Thanks, Tom.

-- Kevin


Tom Schindl wrote:
> 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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