On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 18:28:28 GMT, Martin Fox <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> PR looks good and works fine on Windows 11. 
>> 
>> I've tested the test attached to the JBS issue with a Spanish keyboard. It 
>> fails without the patch for `+`, `'`, `ยก`, and passes with it.
>> 
>> There is a NPE if you press AltGr (with or without the patch):
>> 
>> Exception in thread "JavaFX Application Thread" 
>> java.lang.NullPointerException: keyCode must not be null
>>         at java.base/java.util.Objects.requireNonNull(Objects.java:233)
>>         at 
>> javafx.graphics@21-internal/javafx.scene.robot.Robot.keyPress(Robot.java:92)
>>         at 
>> RobotKeySanityTest.lambda$userReleasedEvent$0(RobotKeySanityTest.java:121)
>>  ```
>> 
>> I wonder if RobotKeySanityTest could be part of the PR as a manual test? 
>> Same as in #694
>
>> I wonder if RobotKeySanityTest could be part of the PR as a manual test? 
>> Same as in #694
> 
> The RobotKeySanityTest is tricky, it requires the user to press a lot of keys 
> to get good coverage but can produce confusing results if the user presses 
> certain keys, like AltGr. Windows treats AltGr as if you pressed Ctrl and Alt 
> at the same time. This means the OS sends two events when you press the key 
> and two more when you release it. This is confusing the RobotKeySanityTest 
> which can only handle one press/release pair at a time. I'm not sure I can 
> fix the test but will think about it.
> 
> The KeyboardTest app that I recently added to PR #425 covers most of the same 
> ground and avoids the problematic keys. The downside of KeyboardTest is that 
> it only provides good coverage for specific layouts (I'll try to add Spanish) 
> and provides the best coverage when run against multiple layouts which takes 
> effort to set up.
> 
> I've written an app that just logs key events as the user types and that 
> would probably be a better candidate to attach to some PR. When something 
> confusing happens with RobotKeySanityTest or KeyboardTest that's the app I 
> pull up to diagnose what's going on (like I just did with AltGr).

@beldenfox One more comment: since your branch is quite out of date, can you 
please merge in the latest upstream master?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/702#issuecomment-1502426741

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