On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 14:50:34 GMT, Martin Fox <m...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> macOS processes a shortcut key like Cmd+A in two phases. In the first phase 
>> it’s shopped around as a “key equivalent”. If it’s not consumed as a key 
>> equivalent it enters the second phase and processed as a normal keyDown 
>> event. Among other things the key equivalent phase ensures the shortcut will 
>> be seen by the system menu bar *before* being treated as a keyDown. This is 
>> the opposite of how JavaFX works; it expects a key event to be fired at the 
>> current focus node which gets first crack at the event before it works its 
>> way out to the menu bar.
>> 
>> We can’t really opt out of the key equivalent phase but we can get the event 
>> before the system menu bar does. Our implementation of performKeyEquivalent 
>> pushes the event through the JavaFX scene graph but has no way of knowing if 
>> the scene graph consumed it. The result is that a consumed event is always 
>> handed to the system menu bar where it can also trigger a menu item.
>> 
>> This PR introduces a variant of notifyKey that returns a boolean indicating 
>> whether the event was consumed or not. If the event was consumed 
>> performKeyEquivalent doesn’t allow it to continue on to the system menu bar.
>> 
>> I’m trying to fix this old, old problem because I’ve seen at least one 
>> JavaFX app tie itself up in knots trying to work around this. Despite the 
>> number of files being touched it is not a deep fix; there’s just a boolean 
>> return value that needs to be plumbed through multiple layers.
>
> Martin Fox has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Clean up for coding standards and removal of unused fields

thank you

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Marked as reviewed by angorya (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1528#pullrequestreview-2357641943

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