231063 - keyDown doesn't reach BrowserWindowController

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[S Woodside]

- (void)keyDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent; is one of the NSResponder methods to
override in a subclass such as BrowserWindowController. But our windows have
ChidView as their first responder, and ChildView defines a method for keyDown
that never passes it on to other responders. For example, I think that since
ChildView doesn't handle deleteBackwards: it does get passed along the responder
chainl an d does reach BrowserWindowController where it is used to have the
delete key call back:

It would I think be nice to be able to have ChildView pass unprocessed keyDown
events on to the nextResponder. I think it could do this using [[self
nextResponder] keyDown:theEvent]. I'm not quite sure where that would go exactly
but perhaps it would be here:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/widget/src/cocoa/nsChildView.mm#3200

Replacing the interpretKeyEvents maybe?

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Need a reason to fix this.