[vwnc] Problems with Visualworks' shortcut keys on mac osx 10.

>Hi all,
>
>I just substituted my windows home computer for a apple mac and have
>some troubles getting the shortcut keys in Visualworks behaving like
>they did on my windows machine. Maybe it has to do with my lack of mac
>experience.
>
>e.g. a shortcut keys for a menu item within the VisualLauncher, as defined like:
>
><menuItem: '&Do something'
>                icon: nil
>                nameKey: #doSomething
>                enablement: #areAttached
>                indication: nil
>                shortcutKeyCharacter: $n
>                shortcutModifiers: 8
>                menu: #(#menuBar  #store #moreRecentlyPublished)
>                position: 20.050>
>
>
>On my windows alt-n activates #doSomething but it doesn't on my mac.
>
>My investigation stopped at:
>
>My investigation stopped at:
>
>MacOSXMenuView >> isMenuItem: aMenuItem
>matchForShortcutKeyKeyboardEvent: aKeyboardEvent
>        "Answer whether aMenuItem corresponds to the given keyboard event as
>short cut key considering the receiver's criteria for matching.
>        This needs to be overridden in the appropriate subclasses to
>determine the appropriate interpretation of the keyboardEvent."
>
>        | theCharacterOrSymbol |
>        theCharacterOrSymbol := aMenuItem shortcutKeyValue.
>        theCharacterOrSymbol isNil ifTrue: [^false].
>        (aMenuItem shortcutModifierSymbols isSameSequenceAs: aKeyboardEvent
>shortcutModifierSymbols) ifFalse: [^false].
>        (aKeyboardEvent hasKeyValue: theCharacterOrSymbol) ifTrue: [^true].
>        (theCharacterOrSymbol isKindOf: Character) ifFalse: [^false].
>        ^(aKeyboardEvent hasKeyValue: theCharacterOrSymbol asLowercase) or:
>                [aKeyboardEvent hasKeyValue: theCharacterOrSymbol asUppercase]
>...
>
>because "(aKeyboardEvent hasKeyValue: theCharacterOrSymbol)"  returns false.
>hasKeyValue is implemented as:
>
>hasKeyValue: testKeyValue
>        "Answer whether the receiver represents the specified key value,
>which can be a
>        Character, Symbol (named special key), or Integer (platform-specific
>special key).
>
>        Match against both the normal and alternative key value."
>
>        ^keyCharacter = testKeyValue or: [alternativeKeyCharacter notNil and:
>[alternativeKeyCharacter = testKeyValue]]
>
>...
>
>Where I expected it to return true, it returns false because
>testKeyValue = $n and  keyCharater = $".
>
>Anybody having a clue?
>
>(Also having problems with shortcuts in workspace/rbbrowser, but
>hopefully, an answer to my question above will help me fix the other
>problems as well).
>
>thanks in advance,
>
>Mathieu van Echtelt.
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