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| Summary: | Toggle Split Editor (Vertical) shortcut (Ctrl + {) not accessible with German keyboard | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Peter Wichers <peter.wichers> |
| Component: | SWT | Assignee: | Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | ma.becker, peter.wichers, rolf.theunissen |
| Version: | 4.17 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows 10 | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
Both AltGR is translated to Ctrl+Alt by windows. Therefore the keypress as observed by Eclipse is always Ctrl+Alt+{, which is not equal to the defined shortcut Ctrl+{. See also Bug 280580.
It seems that autohotkey can observer the difference, maybe somebody can investigate if it is possible to do similar detection in Eclipse.
https://superuser.com/questions/592970/can-i-make-ctrlalt-not-act-like-altgr-on-windows
For anybody trying to get this fixed, here is an extended blog post on all the Windows API to figure out key-presses and the problems in it. The good news is that there seems to be a solution. https://blog.molecular-matters.com/2011/09/05/properly-handling-keyboard-input/ |
On a German keyboard, the open curly brackets are written with (Alt Gr + 7) or (Ctrl + Alt + 7). However, pressing Ctrl + Alt Gr + 7 does not apply the "Toggle Split Editor (Vertical)". A "{" is written into the editor instead. Toggle Split Editor (Horizontal) is accessible.