On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 03:37:17 GMT, Martin Fox <m...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> On Windows a common shortcut like Ctrl+'+' could only be invoked from the 
>> main keyboard and not the numeric keypad. Toolkit.getKeyCodeForChar did not 
>> have enough context to know whether it should return a result from the main 
>> keyboard or the keypad.
>> 
>> This PR alters getKeyCodeForChar to pass in the code of the key the system 
>> is trying to match against. Only the Windows platform actually uses this 
>> additional information.
>> 
>> On the Mac the numeric keypad has always worked due to the odd way 
>> getKeyCodeForChar is implemented (until PR #1209 the keypad worked more 
>> reliably than the main keyboard). On Linux getKeyCodeForChar is a mess; 
>> neither the main keyboard or the numeric keypad work reliably. I have an 
>> upcoming PR which should make both work correctly.
>
> Martin Fox has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge 
> or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in 
> by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains seven additional commits since 
> the last revision:
> 
>  - Consistent terminology and more details in comments.
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into keypadcombo
>  - Added SEPARATOR to list of keypad keys
>  - CharacterCombinations now work on the numeric keypad
>  - Fixed Monocle
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into keypadcombo
>  - Added hint to getKeyCodeForChar to enable numeric keypad

Thank you for clarification!  LGTM(tm)

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Marked as reviewed by angorya (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1289#pullrequestreview-1872883477

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