Bug 11912 - [Widgets] No keyboard access to menus for Mnemonics when NumLock down
Summary: [Widgets] No keyboard access to menus for Mnemonics when NumLock down
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux-Motif
: P3 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
QA Contact: Grant Gayed CLA
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Keywords: usability
: 17624 44582 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2002-03-20 11:36 EST by Ian Petersen CLA
Modified: 2014-08-21 09:13 EDT (History)
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Description Ian Petersen CLA 2002-03-20 11:36:27 EST 
Build: 20020319

OS: RedHat Linux 7.2 using the Motif window system

Description:
I can't access the system menus (or any menus for that matter) using the
keyboard.  If a java editor has the focus, F10, Shift+F10, Ctrl+F10, and
Ctrl+Shift+F10 have no effect.  Also, Alt+F does not drop down the file menu as
expected -- instead it inserts a lower-case f in my java code.  (I can't open
any menus with Alt+<Mnemonic>.)  I can, however, do things like hit Ctrl+B to
invoke a build.  I have the same problems in views.
Comment 1 Kevin Haaland CLA 2002-03-20 11:51:37 EST 
This is the Num-lock problem.
Comment 2 Mike Wilson CLA 2002-03-20 15:09:15 EST 
It shouldn't be. The num-lock problem has been fixed.
Comment 3 Kevin Haaland CLA 2002-03-20 15:18:39 EST 
I tried it on Ian's machine. With num-lock on accelerator did not work. Turning 
num-lock off accelerator did work.
Comment 4 Mike Wilson CLA 2002-03-21 09:00:05 EST 
Argh. Grant, is this a regression?
Comment 5 Grant Gayed CLA 2002-04-01 16:47:37 EST 
This is a different case of the famous NumLock problem.  It was previously 
fixed for accelerators, but in this case it's causing problems for mnemonics.  
All that we can do is give The XmNmnemonic resource a KeySym as a value, after 
which the platform runs the show w.r.t. activating the menu item 
appropriately.  I'm not sure what to do here.  Will troll for assistance...
Comment 6 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-04-16 09:53:24 EDT 
Removing accessibility keyword since the numlock problem doesn't block 
accessibility (it's just very annoying).
Comment 7 Grant Gayed CLA 2002-05-24 10:41:03 EDT 
*** Bug 17624 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Grant Gayed CLA 2003-08-14 09:15:14 EDT 
Asked for workarounds on the motif newsgroup, but received no suggestions.  
Will ask SN about possibility of doing this manually.
Comment 9 Grant Gayed CLA 2003-10-09 13:15:54 EDT 
*** Bug 44582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Grant Gayed CLA 2009-08-27 14:43:22 EDT 
Moving report to triage, see http://www.eclipse.org/swt/triage.php
for swt bug handling process.
Comment 11 Alexander Kurtakov CLA 2014-08-21 09:13:22 EDT 
As Motif is no longer supported closing the bug. Please open a new one if the problem still exists with supported RHEL/Fedora and Eclipse version.