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Re: Strange "Input Window" with ALT+E



I just tripped over this too...one of my customers has an application that counts on ALT+E doing something application-specific.

Does anyone know of a way to remap or disable this functionality?

On 20-Jul-05, at 9:39 AM, Elliott Hughes wrote:

Edward van Meeuwen <email@hidden> wrote:

I get a strange "Input Window" whenever I click ALT+E in my java GUI
application. It pops up out of nowhere, it can be resized but will never
focus. Typing any character will close it.
I have only seen in on java 1.4.2 / 1.5 on Tiger (10.4.2) when no text field
is focused.


Is anyone else having this problem(/bug)?


it's a work-around to make composed characters available in Java applications. type alt-u, for example, and the box appears with an umlaut in it. type u, and you've got 'ü' sent to your Java application.


it doesn't visibly get focus, but since the character is going to go to the original application, maybe that's the right behavior.

i think it's a bug that alt-u esc inserts anything, but it's a bug in native apps, too, so it's probably deliberate.

i think it's a bug that alt-s doesn't insert 'ß' in a Java app.

--
Elliott Hughes, http://www.jessies.org/~enh/

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