Re: 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