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Re: Problem with qwertz-keyboards and accelerators [SOLVED]

Hi,

just to close this thread: As Greg Guerin pointed out, the problem below is a bug in Apple's JVM. Luckily, it is solved in 1.4.1 DP102. Thanks!

Knud

Apparently, when setting a keyboard accelerator to eg. VK_Z, that
resolves to the _key_ on a qwerty-keyboad, and not to the _character_
'z'. See eg the following code:

JMenuItem undo = ...;
undo.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_Z,
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getMenuShortcutKeyMask()));

That results in the weird situation that someone with a german keyboard
(which is qwertz) will have to press 'y' to trigger VK_Z. What is even
worse, is the fact that the menu item still says its accelerator is 'z'.

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Knud Mvller - Institut f|r Sprachliche Informationsverarbeitung,
Universitdt zu Kvln
(Department of Linguistic Data Processing,
University of Cologne, Germany)
http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~kmoeller

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