<Swing Dev> [8] Review request for 8003978 closed/javax/swing/JRootPane/bug4670486.java fails since jdk7u12b01 on macosx

[Mike Swingler]

Ctrl-Alt always worked on Apple's Java SE 6, and it is simply unfortunate that Alt also worked, because it collides with the system input methods (Alt-U in this case being the dead-key you hit before typing a vowel to put an umlaut on top of it). This lead people to mistakenly believe that Alt alone was the "proper" mnemonic key, and resulted in endless confusion when a text input area was focused.

Regards,
Mike Swingler
Apple Inc.

On Jan 10, 2013, at 2:48 AM, Alexander Scherbatiy <alexandr.scherbatiy at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 10/23/2012 12:04 PM, Leonid Romanov wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Are you sure that is is a right fix? I'm asking because Apple JDK 6 works fine with Alt+U as a menu accelerator.
>     I have done it in the same way as it fixed for the button mnemonics.
>     Apple JDK 6 uses Alt+Key for the button mnemonics. It is changed to Ctrl+Alt+Key in the JDK 7.
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Alexandr.
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 6, 2012, at 7:01 PM, Alexander Scherbatiy <alexandr.scherbatiy at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Could you review the fix:
>>> bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8003978
>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alexsch/8003978/webrev.00
>>> 
>>> The test fails because now Alt+U key combination returns right dead key code instead of the key code for the 'U' key.
>>> The solution is to use Ctrl+Alt key combination for menu mnemonics like it is done for button mnemonics.
>>> 
>>> The fix uses SunToolkit getFocusAcceleratorKeyMask() method to get the system depended mnemonic key mask and puts it to the Menu.shortcutKeys property in the BasicLookAndFeel.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alexandr.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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