Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (33 mails)

[Peter Szaban <pszaban@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

    I've been fighting with a Java problem that only appears on Intel SuSE Pro
9.0-9.2 machines running KDE (as far as I know).  When using the keyboard to
enter text into an AWT TextField.  Less-than "<" is getting converted to
greater-than ">".

    Yast says keyboard is set to "English (US)".  For fun, I tried "export
LANG=en_US" (as opposed to en_US.UTF-8) to no avail.  I am not (knowingly)
messing with keymaps anywhere.

    Java appears to recognize the keycodes properly, as it correctly
interprets the un-SHIFT-ed key as  comma ",".  A preloaded less-than sign
is correctly displayed, but when the less-than key (SHIFT-comma) is entered at
the keyboard, it gets converted to greater-than.

    Anybody else experienced this, or worked around it?  Any helpful comments
would be much appreciated.

 Maybe I'm just dense, but I can't find any key combination that will put a
less-than sign in the TextField.  Here's a sample program to illustrate
the problem.  Run the program and try keying a less-than sign into the
TextField:


8X-------------- Test7.java  ----------------------------X8
// Compiled with: /usr/lib/java/bin/javac Test7.java
// Executed from Konsole window with:  /usr/lib/java/bin/java Test7

import java.awt.*;

public class Test7
{
    public static void main( String argv[] )
    {
        Dialog d = new Dialog( new Frame() );
        TextField ts = new TextField( "Try typing a < in here" );
        d.add( ts );
        d.pack();
        d.setVisible( true );
    }
}
8X-------------- Test7.java  ----------------------------X8

Java version: 
  $ rpm -qa | grep java
  java-1_4_2-sun-1.4.2.05-9
  java-1_4_2-sun-devel-1.4.2.05-9