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Bug 316329

Summary:

Need SWT to provide an API to allow F10 to be overridden

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Raji Akella <raji>

Component:

SWT

Assignee:

Silenio Quarti <Silenio_Quarti>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

eclipse.felipe, Mike_Wilson, mukund, pwebster, remy.suen, Silenio_Quarti, sujithjob

Version:

4.0

Target Milestone:

3.7 M2

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

See Also:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=309286

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
patch for Linux	none
patch for gtk	none

Description Raji Akella

2010-06-09 11:33:31 EDT

Build Identifier: 3.7

Please see bugzilla https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=309286

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Silenio Quarti

2010-08-06 17:24:35 EDT

Please see

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=309286#c8

We believe there is no bug here. I am to bind F10 to content assist in 3.6 for example.

Comment 2 Silenio Quarti

2010-08-10 14:27:39 EDT

Closing bug as INVALID.

Comment 3 Paul Webster

2010-08-11 13:43:14 EDT

With items under the File menu, I no longer get *any* key events.

PW

Comment 4 Paul Webster

2010-08-11 13:44:05 EDT

I added the following to the snippet:

Menu file = new Menu(item);
item.setMenu(file);
new MenuItem(file, SWT.PUSH).setText("One");
new MenuItem(file, SWT.PUSH).setText("Two");
new MenuItem(file, SWT.PUSH).setText("Three");

My tests run on linux.

PW

Comment 5 Felipe Heidrich

2010-08-12 11:14:57 EDT

Okay, I have some code in Linux that allows us to process the event before the OS.

But in the Mac I'm afraid the same can't be done. The OS has a default keybinding for F10. The only way (AFAIK) for an application to see a key down is:
System-Preferences->Keyboard->Keyboard shortcuts->Expose & Spaces
Reassign the keybinding of "Application windows" from F10 to something else.

You can do the same on Linux, not sure if there is a nice UI to do so, but you can reassign the shortcut for the menubar using the command line:

gconftool-2 --type string --set  '/desktop/gnome/interface/menubar_accel' 'F11'

(Instead of 'F11' you can pass use an empty string to remove the shortcut)

After doing this, the application will start to receive F10 key down events.

Comment 6 Felipe Heidrich

2010-09-03 09:29:05 EDT

Created attachment 178142 [details]
patch for Linux

note: i have already released all the required native methods

Comment 7 Felipe Heidrich

2010-09-03 16:06:52 EDT

Created attachment 178199 [details]
patch for gtk

Comment 8 Felipe Heidrich

2010-09-03 16:08:33 EDT

Patch for GTK released.

Nothing to do for Cocoa (user has to change the property in the System preferences, otherwise the system consumes the key before it gets to SWT).

Works on windows.

closing as fixed.