JDK-5090651 : Popup menu and menu items are not gaining focus when clicked, on XToolkit
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: client-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.awt
  • Affected Version: 6
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: linux_sun
  • CPU: x86
  • Submitted: 2004-08-23
  • Updated: 2005-12-02
  • Resolved: 2005-07-25
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JDK 6
6 b38Fixed
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-5021183 - Application crashes with just mouse-click and key-press on PopupMenu
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JDK-5087097 - Sub-menus in a popup menu are not traversable through keyboard, on Solaris
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JDK-6266513 - Incorrect key handling in XAWT popup menu
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JDK-5040758 - Popup Menu does not gain focus by default when it is shown on the screen
Description
I am showing a popup menu on clicking the right muse button inside the text area. When the popup menu appears, I am clicking one of the menus and it brings up the menu items in that menu. After that, I am trying to acess the menus and menu items using the keyboard but none of the menus are getting selected. Popup Menu is not usable through keyboard. 

This is reproducible on Solaris9-CDE with XToolkit and on cinnabar. This works fine on Motif and win32. This is introduced in Tiger. On previous releases, the VM was crashing when pressing the arrow buttons after clicking any of the menus with the mouse. 

I have attached a sample test. Execute the test on Linux/Solaris (with XToolkit). You would see a frame with a textarea. Right click inside the textarea. A popup menu comes up. Click on any of the menus. Try selecting the menus / menuitems using arrow keys. If it does not work, the bug is reproduced.
Comments
CONVERTED DATA BugTraq+ Release Management Values COMMIT TO FIX: mustang
26-08-2004
EVALUATION Name: ad153231 Date: 08/24/2004 This is XAWT-specific problem. Assigning to an engineer responsible for this area. ====================================================================== Name: df153228 Date: 08/25/2004 This behavior is reproducible. User could access menu items using mouse. We will fix it in the next release. Some information concerning such behavior with MToolkit you could see in report for bug number 5087097. ======================================================================
26-08-2004
WORK AROUND Name: df153228 Date: 08/25/2004 User could access menu items using mouse. ###@###.### ======================================================================
26-08-2004