On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 20:17:52 GMT, Martin Fox <m...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> The glass code on Windows does its own dead key processing so at certain >> points it must clear the dead key state that the OS is maintaining. It does >> this by simulating a SPACE key press but this only works reliably if the >> SPACE key is pressed without any modifiers. >> >> Currently the code is picking up the current modifier state of the keyboard. >> If the dead key is invoked using AltGr the code is trying to clear the dead >> key state using AltGr+Space. This does nothing. The fix is to ignore the >> current keyboard state and pretend the only key being held down is Space. >> >> I haven't figured out a way of providing automated tests for dead keys. >> There's no way to detect whether the correct keyboard layout is active or to >> force the correct layout to be active. >> >> To test this you'll need to install the correct layout. On Windows 11 go to >> Settings > Time & language > Language & region. Click on the three dots to >> the far right of the English entry (or whatever language you're using) and >> select “Language options”. Scroll down until you find “Add a keyboard”. From >> that button scroll through all the many, many layouts until you find “Swiss >> German”. Once you’ve added the keyboard you should see a button on the far >> right of the task bar to select the layout. The dead key for this bug is >> where the =/+ key is on the standard US keyboard, top row to the left of >> Backspace. > > Martin Fox has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional > commit since the last revision: > > No point in the kbState being static here If you don't have a dedicated AltGr key you can try Ctrl + Alt. It works for me on my emulated Windows 11 system with the Swiss German layout. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1585#issuecomment-2387280429
