On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 17:43:34 GMT, Harshitha Onkar <hon...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> **Problem:** >> >> On macOS, Robot erroneously produces lowercase letter when mouse is moved >> (manually) in unison with Robot's keyEvents. This issue was originally >> logged by a developer of an on-screen accessibility keyboard - TouchBoard. >> Originally reported at >> https://github.com/adoptium/adoptium-support/issues/710 >> >> The issue is reproducible on JDK versions 22 to 11, but works fine on JDK-8. >> (details below) >> >> This issue is not restricted to the Shift modifier key and causes problems >> with other modifier keys as well and in some scenarios without any external >> mouse movement. >> >> - This works correctly on JDK-8 up to JDK-9+129 when Accessibility APIs >> (AXUIElementCreateSystemWide/ AXUIElementPostKeyboardEvent) were used. Later >> on it was changed to CGEvents. >> >> - With the present code, the issue occurs at >> [CRobot.m#L295](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/ac6af6a64099c182e982a0a718bc1b780cef616e/src/java.desktop/macosx/native/libawt_lwawt/awt/CRobot.m#L295.) >> The flags gets reset or cleared when mouse is moved physically in unison >> with Robot's key events. >> >> - The physical mouse movement causes the event flags to be reset. >> >> **Impact:** >> >> Modifier keys don't work as expected when using Robot with any simultaneous >> physical mouse movement and in case of TouchBoard, this behavior breaks the >> usability of the on-screen a11y keyboard. There is no known workaround for >> this particular use case except for reverting to JDK-8. More details on this >> use case >> [here.](https://github.com/adoptium/adoptium-support/issues/710#issuecomment-1594103280) >> >> **Proposed Fix:** >> >> - In order to avoid resetting of the CGEventFlags here >> [CRobot.m#L295](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/ac6af6a64099c182e982a0a718bc1b780cef616e/src/java.desktop/macosx/native/libawt_lwawt/awt/CRobot.m#L295.), >> the CGEvent flag state is obtained in `initRobot` (stored in initFlags) >> which is later used within `CRobot_keyEvent`. >> >> - The incoming keyCode is used to determine whether it is a modifier key and >> the corresponding modifierFlagMask is either added or cleared from the >> initFlags based on whether the modifier key was pressed or released. >> >> - Finally, only the required and known flag bits from initFlag are copied >> over to local flag which is used in `CGEventSetFlags()`. >> >> **Testing:** >> >> The newly added test - RobotModifierMaskTest.java tests for Shift, Caps, >> Control, Option and Command keys. >> It should be tested for two cases: >> >> CASE 1 : Run the test as an auto... > > Harshitha Onkar has updated the pull request incrementally with one > additional commit since the last revision: > > copyright year, line-lengths updated Test updated to run in 2 modes - automated and manual mode. Test instruction frame has been updated to appear only when executed in manual mode. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14744#issuecomment-1622687859
