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Bug 354865

Summary: Pressing Ctrl-Alt(/Option) key + letter inserts invisible spaces into a Text box
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Cameron Bateman <cbateman>
Component: SWTAssignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 4.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)   
Whiteboard: stalebug
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Description Flags
Simple JUnit test that shows the issue. Run as a JUnit test. none

Description Cameron Bateman CLA 2011-08-16 13:26:17 EDT 
Build Identifier: I20110519-1138

Run the attached code on a Mac OS X (my version is 10.6.7).  In the first text box, type a few regular characters (say a then b then c).  The console output I get is as follows:

Text: a (1 chars)
Text: ab (2 chars)
Text: abc (3 chars)

As expected.  Now, hold down Ctrl-Alt(Option) and type and 'r' with the focus in the text box. I get this:

Text: abc (4 chars)

The "space" or whatever it is does not show up in the Text box.  However if I backspace one char I get:

Text: abc (3 chars)

So clearly the Text thinks it is there.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Cameron Bateman CLA 2011-08-16 13:28:25 EDT 
Created attachment 201595 [details]
Simple JUnit test that shows the issue.  Run as a JUnit test.
Comment 2 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-11-14 03:06:49 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.

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