Re: How to enter characters beyond keyboard into JTextField?


"Knute Johnson" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:43B471C1.80801@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Knute Johnson wrote:
>> Michael Dunn wrote:
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>>> "Knute Johnson" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:XkJsf.6711$TW4.3020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>>> How do I enter characters from the keyboard that aren't on the keyboard? For example if I want
>>>> to enter the 1/2 character \u00bd. I thought on a Winblows machine that you could do that by
>>>> holding down the ALT key and then typing a sequence of numbers. It doesn't and I hadn't tried
>>>> it in a long time.
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>>> ALT 0189
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>>> works OK for me in a JTextField (win xp)
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>> That's how I thought it was supposed to work but it's not for some reason. I'll have to play
>> with it some more.
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> It only works with the numeric keypad not the regular number keys!

across the board, not just java
in windows, they call it a feature


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