On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:12:19PM -0800, Jonathan Ard wrote: > > Has anyone else run into problems typing in user input into Java AWT > programs? Any Text Fields just don't seem to respond at all to keyboard > input. I had this problem when installing RealPlayer, and thought it > was just something wrong with that program in particular. But I just > downloaded an AWT based program from Sourceforge and noticed the same > problem. > I have the same problem in WindowMaker and KDE, so I don't think it is a > Window Manager issue. I believe all of the programs have been compiled > with Sun's jdk (don't know which versions). > Anybody seen this? Any workarounds or solutions? Other than not > running AWT programs, that is. > > Thanks, > > Jonathan >
I had similar problems with programs I'd written myself about a year ago. Keyboard input worked until I moved off the screen and returned, or iconified/deiconified. This happened after I'd changed from Suns's jdk (where as far as I remembered things had worked) to Jikes(compiler)/Kaffe(jvm). IIRC the only solution I found was to include a "requestFocus()" at overkill intervals in the program, but that won't help you if you're running someone else's stuff. I mentioned the problem on this list, but got no reply. I think it's a problem in the jvm you're using. David
