On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 16:59:13 GMT, Martin Fox <m...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The Mac platform code figures out where characters are on the keyboard as 
>> the user types. The character table is updated on every key press by calling 
>> a registerKeyEvent: in GlassApplication. This character table is used to 
>> resolve KeyCharacterCombination accelerators like Cmd + "+".
>> 
>> On a US English layout when the user types Cmd + "+" on the main keyboard 
>> they're actually typing Cmd + "=". There's special handling in macOS for 
>> this combination that can cause two NSEvents to be sent and so there's 
>> special handling in the Glass code so we don't process both events. When 
>> this special case is invoked registerKeyEvent: isn't being called to update 
>> the character table. This bug was introduced when code was consolidated in 
>> PR #1528.
>> 
>> The fix is a simple one-liner. I've added a test for this in the 
>> KeyboardTest.java program. It's an isolated test because it requires the 
>> Robot to send events to hold down a modifier while a character key is 
>> pressed. I also updated some obsolete comments and tweaked it to test all 
>> KeyCharacterCombinations since they should now work reliably on all 
>> platforms.
>
> Martin Fox has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Reverted manual tests, added system test, changed check for fake 
> performKeyEquivalent event.

Looks good.

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Marked as reviewed by mstrauss (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1837#pullrequestreview-3017264997

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