[jbosstools-dev] Text fields not editable after opening and closing a dropdown menu

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

not seeing this on OSX.

Sounds like a Linux bug.

On 26 Sep 2012, at 15:44, Peter Palaga <ppalaga at redhat.com> wrote:

> Ladies and Gentlemen,
> 
> I was not able to find any sign of this bug on bugs.eclipse.com although 
> I am experiencing it since Eclipse 3.7.
> Probably, it is Linux or even KDE specific.
> 
> Does anybody know if it is filed somewhere?
> 
> Could please anybody try to reproduce it under Gnome, Mac or Windows?
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> (1) File > New > Java Project
> 
> (2) Open the dropdown menu of any combo box (there are three of them 
> there) either by mouse or keyboard. Close the dropdown menu in any way 
> (focus out, select an item or hit space)
> 
> (3) Focus the Project Name text field and try to type some character. 
> UNEXPECTED: No char appears in the text field.
> 
> Reproducible also in other dialogs, e.g. SVN Commit, Git Create Tag, ...
> 
> 
> Workaround:
> 
> (i) Paste some text into the text field (use either context menu of the 
> text field or middle-click)
> 
> (ii) Cut some part of the text in the text field away (select by mouse 
> and context menu > Cut)
> 
> After (ii) the text field accepts keyboard events again.
> 
> Note that (i) is necessary only if there is no text in the text field.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter
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