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Bug 322504

Summary:	Backspace and Arrows stop working
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	dada87
Component:	PDT	Assignee:	PHP UI <php.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	erik, silviya, tbfisher, zulus
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description dada87

2010-08-12 07:24:05 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

Randomly for twice time a day, the arrows and the backspace keys stop working in the editor and only there (works fine in the explorer, in the menu, outline...).
I tried to find other report on that bug but it's talking about a mouse problem when my mouse is fine and also I used eclipse for a month before it started.

To resolve the issue the only solution I have is to restart my computer...wich is a little annoying when done twice a day. (restarting eclipse is not enough)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 erik van nieuwburg

2011-02-18 07:32:15 EST

Open Activity Monitor and quit the Dock process. After that the keys seem to be functioning again.

Comment 2 brian

2011-11-08 01:30:09 EST

I'm seeing this as well, quitting dock process does not fix.

Comment 3 erik van nieuwburg

2011-11-08 03:09:08 EST

Killing the dockprocess worked in Snow Leopard. It stopped working in Lion.

I've read multiple times that it's got something to do with mouse button listeners that are stuck in Eclipse. 
What fixes it most of the times right now: just press ALL of your mouse buttons (+wheel) at the same time. After that, it usually works again.

Comment 4 Dawid Pakula

2016-05-18 09:01:54 EDT

This bug was created for carbon, unsupported for now.

On cococa ewerything working correctly.

Comment 5 Sylvia Tancheva

2016-06-21 10:28:44 EDT

Closing