[ jEdit-devel ] [ jedit-Bugs-466088 ] menu does not disappear when ESC is used

Bugs item #466088, was opened at 2001-09-28 08:43
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Category: text area and syntax packages
Group: minor bug
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Kasper B. Graversen (kbg)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: menu does not disappear when ESC is used

Initial Comment:
select the edit menu with alt e, scroll down to 
submenu text and go into it. Press ESC to escape to 
the edit menu, press ESC to be able to edit the active 
file. 

Now when having entered the submenu, the edit menu 
does not disappear from the textfield (I need to press 
the mousebutton in order for it to disappear. 

However, selecting only the edit menu and pressing ESC 
works.

I use jedit 3.2.2, jdk1.4b2 and win98


-KBG


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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2001-09-28 10:11

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I won't change back to jdk 1.3 as jdk 1.4b2 makes jedit 
around 10 times faster on my 400mhz

but thanks for the thorough reply



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Comment By: John Gellene (jgellene)
Date: 2001-09-28 09:36

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This does not occur on JDK1.3.1.  There are a variety of 
focus related issues involving JDK1.4 beta that prevent 
keystrokes from going where they are supposed to.  This is 
probably another manifestation.  

JDK1.4 introduced a new focus model for the AWT that Sun 
acknowledges to be incompatible with prior releases.  It is 
described in some detail at the following link:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/awt/doc-
files/FocusSpec.html

The incompatibilities are described near the end of the 
document.

The question of how and when jEdit should deal with this 
should probably get addressed outside the context of a 
particular bug.  It looks like the only solution that would 
satisfy everyone in the short term would be another 
internal fork in the source code similar to the fork that 
handles reflection and some other minor features under JDK 
1.3.  Such a solution would also require that jEdit be 
built using JDK 1.4, which is still only available in a 
beta version.  

In the meantime, I would recommend you go back to JDK 1.3.1 
for jEdit unless your programming work requires you to have 
jEdit's tools running under a 1.4 JVM.

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