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| Summary: | [mac] KeyDown event has wrong keyCode for non-english layouts | ||||||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Hugo Almeida <hugoalmeida1211> | ||||
| Component: | SWT | Assignee: | Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox> | ||||
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | normal | ||||||
| Priority: | P3 | ||||||
| Version: | 4.13 | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | Macintosh | ||||||
| OS: | Mac OS X | ||||||
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Created attachment 280238 [details] Test class swt.version: 3.108.0.v20180904-1901 and 4.13 tested For non-english keyboard layouts the event keyCode seems wrong on mac, and is different from both Windows and Ubuntu. Experimental setup: see the attached file. Basically just a Text widget with a KeyListener that prints character and keyCode values of the pressed key. I was using a physical QWERTY keyboard. Windows/Ubuntu: QWERTY layout, press z: character: z keyCode: 122 QWERTZ layout, press y (so where z is in QWERTY) character : y keyCode: 121 Russian layout, press я (again, where z is in QWERTY) character: я keyCode: 122 Mac: QWERTY layout, press z: character: z keyCode: 122 QWERTZ layout, press y (so where z is in QWERTY) character : y keyCode: 121 Russian layout, press я (again, where z is in QWERTY) character: я keyCode: 1103 As you can see, there is a difference in behaviour between OSes. This is specially hard if you are trying to process keys to identify shortcuts. I noticed Eclipse IDE Text boxes suffer from this difference in different OSes likewise. But any shortcut that is processed through a KeyListener fails precisely because of this.