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Dvorak keyboard mapping not honored when ctrl key pressed

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        SHORT SUMMARY:
        DVORAK KEYBOARD MAPPING NOT HONORED WHEN CTRL KEY PRESSED
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        EB> Environment
        EB> ===========
        EB>
        EB> Mac OS X 10.7.5
        EB> Java 1.6.0_45
        EB> NetBeans 7.3.1
        EB>
        EB> Configuration
        EB> =============

        EB> In System preferences, set keyboard layout to DVORAK and remap the
        EB> caps lock key to be the ctrl key.

        EB> In NetBeans preferences, set the keyboard mapping to emacs.

        EB> Steps to reproduce
        EB> ==================

        EB> 1. In the text editor, put the text on a line and press Ctrl-e (e in
        EB> the DVORAK layout is where d is in QWERTY) to go to the end of the
        EB> line.

        EB> Instead of going to the end of the line, Netbeans deletes a character.

        EB> 2. In the text editor, put the text on a line and press Ctrl-. This
        EB> causes the cursor to go to the end of the line, apparently because
        EB> . in the DVORAK layout is where e is in QWERTY.
        EB>
        EB> Observation
        EB> ===========

        EB> It seems the keymap reverts to QWERTY when the Ctrl key is pressed.

        EB> If I bring up the keyboard viewer, I do see that Ctrl-e is shown to
        EB> be pressed when I press Ctrl-e.

        Svata Dedic wrote:

        SD> This seems as a defect in JDK/MacOS X, specifically the method
        SD> KeyEvent.getExtendedKeyCode() fails to produce the correct key code
        SD> (returns VK_UNDEFINED).

        SD> The KeyEvent that arrives to the NetBeans for pressing "E" key has
        SD> the following properties on both Linux (working) and MacOS X (not
        SD> working):

        SD> * keyText='E'
        SD> * keyChar='.'
        SD> * keyCode=69

        SD> extendedKeyCode returns 46 on Linux, 0 on MacOS X.

        SD> Should start to work OK once fixed on JDK/JRE side.

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