While researching JDK-8153032 I realized that part of the drag-and-drop API
doesn’t make sense to me. From what I can determine there’s no reliable way of
figuring out whether the user is holding down a modifier key or not while
processing a drag event. On Windows DragEvent::getTransferMode()
Kevin,
As a heads up there are actually two behavior changes to be reviewed. JavaFX is
picking up some archaic behavior from the OS which thinks that the modifier key
for LINK is Control. The Finder switched over to Option+Command a long time ago
and I think JavaFX should follow suit.
As for
If changing the default behavior makes it consistent with native apps on
macOS and with JavaFX apps on other platforms, then it seems like the
right thing to do. We would want a CSR for the behavior change
As for your question about finding the bug using the old "RT-" bug
ID, you can just
I was just looking at JDK-8237329 which is a drag-and-drop bug on the Mac;
holding down the Command key alone is guaranteed to disable an internal dnd
operation. I’m putting together a PR to fix this.
While going through the bug database looking for related bugs I ran across
JDK-8153032 which
