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Author: Artem Ananiev Date: 07/Nov/11 04:15 PM
Does it work for components other than JTable?
 
Author: Pete Brunet Date: 28/Nov/11 10:06 PM
JTable is the only control I am aware of that you can get stuck in just using tab or shift tab, i.e. tab or shift tab at the last/first cell wraps to the beginning/end.  Using ctrl shift tab to get back out of the first cell:
On Win with Java 1.7.0_01, works OK with all L&Fs
On Mac with Java 1.6.0_29, works OK with all L&Fs
On Mac with JDK7 b218, nothing happens with all L&Fs
 
Author: Pete Brunet Date: 06/Dec/11 03:44 PM
I see the same problem not being able to get out of an editable text area.  If you are in an editable text area pressing tab will insert a tab into the text and ctrl tab is needed to get out of the text field.  That works OK with JDK 6 but not JDK 7. To see this use the TextSamplerDemoProject found on this page: 
<span class=&quot;nobr&quot;><a href=&quot;http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/examples/components/index.html&quot;>http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/examples/components/index.html<sup><img class=&quot;rendericon&quot; src=&quot;/jira/images/icons/linkext7.gif&quot; height=&quot;7&quot; width=&quot;7&quot; align=&quot;absmiddle&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;/></sup></a></span>
The direct link is:
<span class=&quot;nobr&quot;><a href=&quot;http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/examples/zipfiles/components-TextSamplerDemoProject.zip&quot;>http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/examples/zipfiles/components-TextSamplerDemoProject.zip<sup><img class=&quot;rendericon&quot; src=&quot;/jira/images/icons/linkext7.gif&quot; height=&quot;7&quot; width=&quot;7&quot; align=&quot;absmiddle&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;/></sup></a></span>
After building the project with NetBeans here is a typical invocation:
cd /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/JDK\ 1.7.0\ Developer\ Preview.jdk/Contents/Home/
bin/java -cp &quot;/Users/petebrunet/Java Samples/components-TextSamplerDemoProject/dist/TextSamplerDemo.jar&quot; components.TextSamplerDemo
The text area labeled Plain Text is editable.
 
Author: Anton Tarasov Date: 16/Dec/11 02:07 PM
I see that nor &quot;ctrl+tab&quot;, nor &quot;ctrl+shift+tab&quot; works for any control. (It works with Apple's java)
 
Author: Anton Tarasov Date: 21/Dec/11 01:09 PM
When I press CTRL, holding it and then press TAB, nothing is called on the native level for the TAB key down event. The reason is that for a key press with a modifier cocoa calls the performKeyEquivalent method, not the keyDown one. The method is simply not implemented in AWTView.m.
Here's the webrev: <span class=&quot;nobr&quot;><a href=&quot;http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ant/MACOSX_PORT-658/v.1/webrev/&quot;>http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ant/MACOSX_PORT-658/v.1/webrev/<sup><img class=&quot;rendericon&quot; src=&quot;/jira/images/icons/linkext7.gif&quot; height=&quot;7&quot; width=&quot;7&quot; align=&quot;absmiddle&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;/></sup></a></span>
The fix also suggests an additional change. It's to remove a modification of a key char value in a key press event with a modifier (CTRL/SHIFT):
<span class=&quot;nobr&quot;><a href=&quot;http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ant/MACOSX_PORT-658/v.1/webrev/src/macosx/classes/sun/lwawt/macosx/CPlatformView.java.udiff.html&quot;>http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ant/MACOSX_PORT-658/v.1/webrev/src/macosx/classes/sun/lwawt/macosx/CPlatformView.java.udiff.html<sup><img class=&quot;rendericon&quot; src=&quot;/jira/images/icons/linkext7.gif&quot; height=&quot;7&quot; width=&quot;7&quot; align=&quot;absmiddle&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;/></sup></a></span>
This change is currently under discussion with the author of the workaround (and so it may be not a final version).
                                     

EVALUATION

Backing out the change in CPlatformView.java, because of this:

http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT-568


new webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ant/MACOSX_PORT-658/v.2/webrev/