[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Editor gets focus, cursor keys don't work, w

["Boris Bokowski" <bokowski@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you have anything that might change how your keys work, for example 
special drivers for your keyboard?  Did you change the keyboard layout to 
something different (this can happen sometimes by just pressing Alt-Shift 
and letting go)?  Does this still happen after a reboot?  Did you check your 
computer for spyware, or a keylogger?

I once had the strangest behaviour in some applications but not all, until I 
discovered that I must have hit the "scroll lock" key without knowing that 
this puts some applications in a different mode.

"Dan Foley" <dfoley-eclipse-041107@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:8151e6f5049ca2e48ef4d28a5710f626$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> i'm experiencing a problem that was last encountered in these postings:
>
> Weird behaviour: Focus remains in Editor
> http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools/msg34686.html
>
> Severe UI problems
> http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.platform/msg45205.html
>
> and a bug was even opened:
>
> Bug 110253 - [DetachedViews] UI having problems accepting input (low 
> level)
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=110253
>
> the description of the problem is:
>
> i'm running Eclipse 3.2.2 on WinXP 2002 SP2.  it was working fine not more 
> than 2 days ago.  then i come home, start up the IDE, and put focus into 
> an Editor.  suddenly my cursor keys don't work -- numeric keypad or 
> standard -- with the exclusion of the Home and End buttons.  i can type, 
> undo changes, etc. but when i try to try an Alt-key combination for a 
> menu, nothing happens.  when i try to click on another IDE views, such as 
> the Package Explorer, the cursor stays a text bar.  when i click down 
> anyway out of stubbornness, the cursor in the Editor shifts to that row. 
> same goes for the app's menu bar, the editor's scrollbar and the window's 
> title region -- the editor steals the click event.  it's as if the click 
> region for the editor takes up the entire IDE.
>
> if i send focus to another app, then go back to Eclipse without giving 
> focus to the editor, everything works perfectly normal.  the cursor keys 
> work, the Alt-key combos work for the app menu.  but as soon as i give 
> focus to the Editor again, i'm stuck and i have to Alt-Tab (yes, that 
> works) away and then back in order to give focus to any IDE view except 
> the Editor.
>
> screwing around a little more, i've found that the drag-size bars between 
> the Editor and the other views will also take focus and not let go.  i 
> closed all the Editor windows, closed all Perspectives, re-opened Java, 
> and found that the Editor still didn't work.  closed the Editors, then 
> re-sized the Editor region, and i got the same stickiness -- the cursor 
> stayed a < - > resize indicator no matter where i clicked in the IDE 
> window ... until i sent focus to another app and then back to the IDE.
>
> re: detached views.  i wasn't using them before, hadn't started, and when 
> i forced a couple views into detached mode and then back, that didn't have 
> any impact on the problem.
>
> does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on this?  it just started 
> completely out of the blue, and i'm seeing from the previous posts that 
> trying to force upgrade my JRE (1.5.0_06) wouldn't provide relief
>
>