Yes this is a horrible side effect of a fix for key press/key release
events requested by an ISVs
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4371923.html
It is committed to be fixed
regards
calvin
Juergen Kreileder wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Joi" == Joi Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Joi> On 30 Oct 2000, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> >> >>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Schönfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> Christoph> I have installed JBuilder 4 on RedHat 6.2 and noticed
> Christoph> that I can not type certain characters, such as
> Christoph> *,+,?,\,', etc. This does not seem to be a RedHat
> Christoph> problem though - I could reproduce it with Debian/Woody
> Christoph> and Forte for Java. I use Sun's JDK 1.3 in both cases.
> >>
> >> It's a bug in Sun's version, our 1.3.0 doesn't have this
> >> problem.
>
> Joi> Under what conditions does this bug manifest itself? I'm
> Joi> running JBuilder 4 under both IBM 1.3 (the jvm provided with
> Joi> JB4, by the way) and Sun 1.3, as well as a number of apps I'm
> Joi> developing, and I've not seen this.
>
> You'll only see this with non-US keyboard layouts.
>
> Joi> The only glitches I've seen are running JBuilder 4 under Sun
> Joi> 1.3, is in the editor pane the escape and del keys input a
> Joi> garbage character into the document being editted.
>
> This may happen with our version as well. We are working on a fix.
>
> Juergen
>
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