Hi, I have updated the Webrev to accommodate the comments and here is
the new Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sveerabhadra/8148344/webrev.01/
I have separated the /_Unicode_/ keys input via java robot as a new
set of /_public_/ api’s (this is in similar fashion as how the
platform offers the Unicode keys input into the system) and this has
been tested on all the platforms using the test file similar to the
attached file in the bug. A more proper test file would be put for
review in the subsequent reviews.
Thanks and regards,
Shashi
*From:* Sergey Bylokhov
*Sent:* Wednesday, August 30, 2017 2:33 AM
*To:* Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah
<shashidhara.veerabhadra...@oracle.com>
*Cc:* awt-dev@openjdk.java.net
*Subject:* Re: <AWT Dev> [10] JDK-8148344: Java robot keypress should
be able to use extended key code characters as ? ? ?.
Hi, Shashi.
This is part of this fix, to figure out how it will work for external
applications. As you said this functionally can be useful for an
onscreen keyboards, which virtually can have any possible keys, but we
should check how the applications will react on such keys:
- Will the application get some kind of keyPress/Release?
- Will the application get some keyCode for such event?
- Is it possible to get autorepeat for such keys?(between
press/release)
Depending from the answers above we can enhance existed robot API or
provide a new one:
like Robot.keyType(char)/etc
----- shashidhara.veerabhadra...@oracle.com
<mailto:shashidhara.veerabhadra...@oracle.com> wrote:
Hi Sergey, I was only able to add short cut keys in the Microsoft word
but not as a system wide short cut key. There was no mechanism that I
could find to add a short cut key for a Unicode char!! Can you please
tell me the steps to do the same if you are aware of?
Thanks and regards,
shashi
*From:*Sergey Bylokhov
*Sent:* Tuesday, August 22, 2017 8:34 PM
*To:* Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah
<shashidhara.veerabhadra...@oracle.com
<mailto:shashidhara.veerabhadra...@oracle.com>>
*Cc:* awt-dev@openjdk.java.net <mailto:awt-dev@openjdk.java.net>
*Subject:* Re: <AWT Dev> [10] JDK-8148344: Java robot keypress should
be
able to use extended key code characters as ? ? ?.
Hi, Shashi.
Can you check how this Robot API will work when the application will have a
shortcut for such key? Will such shortcuts will work after this fix?
----- shashidhara.veerabhadra...@oracle.com
<mailto:shashidhara.veerabhadra...@oracle.com> wrote:
Hi All, Please review fix for the /_enhancement_/ wherein the robot
key press of non-ascii were interpreted as question marks.
Issue: The robot key press events was handling only the ascii inputs
and ignored the other Unicode inputs. Either it was throwing illegal
argument exception in windows or does nothing on the mac for those
Unicode inputs.
Solution and fix: The platform specific api’s was unable handle the
non-ascii inputs. I have modified the api’s to accept the non-ascii
inputs and correspondingly send the message to the window to print the
non-ascii characters as well. Below is the picture of how the
non-ascii inputs are considered and printed onto the window.
The solution spans across windows and mac platform and still in search
of a solution for the Linux platform. The solution implements key
scanning only upon existing valid ascii key was /_not_/ found and
assumes it as Unicode key and sends the event to event queue to be
processed as Unicode keys. Different formats are being used by
different platform implementation of Unicode. For ex., per the below
Unicode list, in the case of windows and mac, the key input can take
decimal values whereas on Linux it can only take the Code values.
On Linux, I was able to get the KeySym of Unicode keys but was unable
to fake the key event as there was no mechanism available for the
same(which sends the key event to window). Please let me know if there
is any such mechanism available to simulate Unicode key events on
Linux platform. Hence I think to raise a bug for the Linux platform
and close this JDK-8148344 bug.
Enhancement id: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8148344
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sveerabhadra/8148344/webrev.00/
Thanks and regards,
Shashi
