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Bug 291483

Summary:	[Browser] Cannot block default key handling of IE accelerators
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Markus Keller <markus.kell.r>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Grant Gayed <grant_gayed>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	chrriis, daniel_megert
Version:	3.5	Keywords:	triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Markus Keller

2009-10-06 10:09:18 EDT

3.5 and I20090929-0800

The Browser widget does not respect keyDown blockings from display filters or key listeners. E.g. when I bind 'Toggle Link with Editor' to Ctrl+L in Eclipse and then try it in the Javadoc view, my command gets executed, but the browser also shows an "Open" dialog where I could enter a new location.

Same problem with Ctrl+A (selects all text although I reassigned the key binding). Can also be seen in the ControlExample when you set the doit field for KeyDown to false.

Comment 1 Markus Keller

2009-10-06 12:16:23 EDT

That's probably a problem in IE 8.

I'm pretty sure the fix for bug 222024 used to work at some time but now I get that location dialog also in 3.4.2.

Comment 2 Grant Gayed

2009-10-14 13:40:54 EDT

It looks like the specific failure case is blocking of KeyDowns that correspond to IE accelerators, so changing report title accordingly.  Showing the Open Location dialog when Ctrl+L is pressed is a new one for IE8, but others like Ctrl+A and Ctrl+P fail as far back as IE6.  Blocking of other keys seems fine in IE8.

Comment 3 Christopher Deckers

2010-12-14 16:51:30 EST

Some users have an issue with default IE accelerators. There does not seem any way to block accelerators and this causes problems: they control the content but certain accelerators cause errors at their PHP end.

For example:
F5 refreshes the current page which has nasty effects.
Backspace is legal when in a text field but has a nasty effect (back navigation) when no text field has the focus.

Is there a way to shortcut all default IE accelerators?

Comment 4 Leo Ufimtsev

2017-08-03 12:28:50 EDT

This is a one-off bulk update. (The last one in the triage migration).

Moving bugs from swt-triaged@eclipse to platform-swt-inbox@eclipse.org and adding "triaged" keyword as per new triage process:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/SWT/Devel/Triage

See Bug 518478 for details.

Tag for notification/mail filters:
@TriageBulkUpdate

Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2020-02-29 07:11:27 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

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