[vwnc] Weird TextEditor problem

Hi group
I'm experiencing a rather weird (well, wierd from my point of view) problem. I have a TextEditor
widget in a window. When I start the app, this window comes up (with focus set to the TextEditor
widget, just to be sure).
When I start entering text, the first character gets "swallowed". Upon entering a second one, both
get displayed, but reversed. So, if I enter "b" then "g" on the keyboard, I get "gb" with the cursor
BETWEEN the two characters.
I debugged and found out that (essentially) in TextEditorController>>processKeyboardEvent there is
this check:

sel == #normalCharacterKey:
        ifTrue: [self normalKeyboardEvent: charEvent do: [:ch | taStream nextPut: ch]]
        ifFalse:

and, believe it or not, sel (in my case, at least) is #altCharacterKey:

I would have expected #normalCharacterKey: Does anybody have any ideas? And no, I'm not drunk, I did
  NOT press the alt key ;)

Thanks a lot for your help!

Mike

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What platform are you seeing this on?  As it happens, John Sarkela and
myself were just reviewing stuff related to what you describe...

Andres.

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Hi group
I'm experiencing a rather weird (well, wierd from my point of view)
problem. I have a TextEditor widget in a window. When I start the app,
this window comes up (with focus set to the TextEditor widget, just to
be sure).
When I start entering text, the first character gets "swallowed". Upon
entering a second one, both get displayed, but reversed. So, if I enter
"b" then "g" on the keyboard, I get "gb" with the cursor BETWEEN the two
characters.
I debugged and found out that (essentially) in
TextEditorController>>processKeyboardEvent there is this check:

sel == #normalCharacterKey:
        ifTrue: [self normalKeyboardEvent: charEvent do: [:ch | taStream
nextPut: ch]]
        ifFalse:

and, believe it or not, sel (in my case, at least) is #altCharacterKey:

I would have expected #normalCharacterKey: Does anybody have any ideas?
And no, I'm not drunk, I did
  NOT press the alt key ;)

Thanks a lot for your help!

Mike

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On 20.03.2008 10:27, Valloud, Andres wrote:
> What platform are you seeing this on?  As it happens, John Sarkela and
> myself were just reviewing stuff related to what you describe...
>
> Andres.

right now, I'm on WinXP SP2 with VW NC 7.5. I'll check later today on Mac OS 10.5.2...
Mike

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Well, here is what I found out: I have a TabControl at the top of my window, plus two TextEditors at
the bottom (see screen shot). As soon as I delete the TabControl, the bottom right TextEditor works
as it should (that was the one "misbehaving"). So my suspicion is that the TabControl is the culprit
with regards to the #altCharacterKey:

Unfortunately, deleting the TabControl is NOT a solution in my case... so if someone has a REAL
solution (even a workaround) I'd highly appreciate if they'd let me know...

Mike

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