keyDown message weirdness

[Devin Asay]

On Apr 18, 2006, at 9:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Devin Asay wrote:
>
> > It's not the font choice that triggers the bug, but the input  
> method.
> > You would need to activate the input menu from the International   
> system
> > pref pane. Activate, eg., Cyrillic or Greek, then click in  your rev
> > field and choose one of these languages from the flag menu.  Then  
> watch
> > the message watcher to see if the keydown messages  disappear. I'm
> > getting this consistently on 2.6.1 through 2.7.x on  both a  
> Powermac G4
> > and G5 running 10.4.6.
>
> I see. Okay, so I activated the international menu and activated  
> Greek. Dragged a new field onto a test stack. Showed the message  
> watcher. Choose Greek from the system menu.
>
> If I typed regular characters I got all four messages. If I typed,  
> say, Option-P (to get a pi) I got an optionkeydown message and then  
> two "up" messages (rawkeyup, keyup).
>
> Then I switched back to the US menu input via the system menu, and  
> typed Option-P and still got an optionKeyDown and two "up"  
> messages. Typing normal characters gave me all four messages.
>
> So maybe it's the option key that blocks the messages? Seems to be  
> the same no matter which menu input I choose. Maybe its an OS  
> thing. I know that Rev just grabs whatever keyboard messages the OS  
> sends, so it may be that the Mac OS isn't sending those.

Thanks for confirming and helping narrow this down. I'm going to BZ it.

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University