<AWT Dev> [13] Review Request: 8214469 [macos] PIT: java/awt/Choice/ChoiceKeyEventReaction/ChoiceKeyEventReaction.java fails

[Semyon Sadetsky]

On 6/5/19 2:26 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> On 05/06/2019 08:17, semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com wrote:
>> On 6/4/19 4:56 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/06/2019 09:50, semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com wrote:
>>>> Taking into account the above, that states all 3 platforms have 
>>>> different behavior, what makes you think that it is a test issue?
>>>
>>> Because the test assumes that we have only two toolkit 
>>> implementations platforms Windows and Unix, and it checks that all 
>>> non-windows platforms should work like the motif components.
>>>
>> The test may wrongly assume this, but why the behavior depends on the 
>> platform I don't understand what is fundamental reason for that?
>> The key event, if created, can be redirected to any component. Either 
>> I see no obstacles to disable popup when the combo-box is not allowed 
>> to receive the input focus. It is not a big deal to unify that one 
>> way or another.
>
> It depends on the platform because these components use or emulate the 
> native components.

I cannot find similar behavior of native components. What specifically 
do you emulate?

A popup window that cannot be closed using keyboard only is a nonsense 
for any UI. I think you need to elaborate another solution.