192935 - Dead key events not captured by keypress in JavaScript on Mac OS X

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Christian Stocker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

If I type for example ¨+u at
http://www2.wbs.ne.jp/%7Echado/work/js_keypress/js_keypress.html (example not by
me) nothing happens in Mac OS X. On Linux it works as expected...

I took the above example, as it is much shorter than what I could provide
(http://demo.bitfluxeditor.org) ;) it's also not working on Mac OS X there.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Greg K.]

WorksForMe using FizzillaMach/2003022103. I press option+u to invoke the umlaut
modifier, and an umlaut placeholder is drawn. I then press u, and a u+umlaut
character replaces the placeholder.

Christian, can you still reproduce this problem using a current nightly build?
If so, can you reproduce this problem using another Mozilla user profile?

Comment 2

[Christian Stocker]

 Doesn't work for me :(

I can type ü and Ü in the textarea field in the url above, that's not the
problem. But if you click "enable keypress", then it doesn't work with dead
keys. It shows for example:
ASCII code of pressed key = 99, Character = "c"
if i press c, but nothing happens if i type ctrl+¨ and then U (or u for that matter)

Tested with build 2003022303 on Mac OS X. 

chregu

Comment 3

[Christian Stocker]

mmmh, sorry, i don't have to type ctrl+¨ on my swiss german keyboard. just the ¨
key and then the approproate letter is enough normaly ;) Just for the record.

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

Confirmed using FizzillaMach/2003022103.

Comment 5

[Alexiares]

In my case, this problem develops in other programs and persists as long as
Mozilla is open, again under Mac OS 9.2. Mozilla itself does not have any
trouble handling dead key events. For the other programs, they may be opened
before or after Mozilla, dead key events are not handled properly until after
Mozilla has been shut down.

Comment 6

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Tossing this over to Widget:Cocoa with the rest of the key event bugs.  (Note that this is just characters composed by dead keys; single-key characters like ß (opt-s) are captured.)

Comment 7

[Josh Aas]

This bug is really old and the examples referenced are gone.