1. This is a bug.
2. This applies to the JDK.
3. The version of the JDK is 1.0 Final (and 1.0 Beta 2...)
4. The handleEvent method does not get called for the KEY_PRESS event
when the key is a period in Win32. It will get called for a KEY_RELEASE
event, however. All other keys work fine.
5. I am using Windows 95.
6-9. Here is a sample that will demonstrate the problem (on Win32
only). I have posted it to comp.lang.java and received a response from
someone stating that the same bug is apparent when running this code as
an applet. You can also see this happen with the program 'jev'
available on Gamelan. Here is the code:

---------------------BEGIN event.java------------------------
import java.awt.*;

public class event extends Frame
{
        TextArea ta;

        public event()
        {
                ta = new TextArea(10,40);
                add("Center",ta);
                pack();
                show();
        }

   public static void main(String args[])
   {
                new event();
   }

        public boolean handleEvent(Event e)
        {
                if(e.id == Event.KEY_PRESS)
                {
                        ta.appendText("Key pressed: " + e.key + '\\n');
                        return true;
                }

                // so we can exit the application
                else if(e.id == Event.WINDOW_DESTROY)
                {
                        System.exit(0);
                        return true;
                }
                return false;
        }
}
Thanks,
--
Thomas Lea
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