Dialogs on OS X - Why do std key combos only sometimes work?

Those where shortcuts do work are jetbrains' own editor component rather
standard Swing JTextField.


Stefan Arentz wrote:

I understand from previous discussions that Alloy is not well supported on OS X.

But ...

What I don't understand is why the standard key combos Command-ZXCVA work in some text fields while they don't in others.

I filed a bug report about this:

http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/IDEA-9045

That was closed with the words 'This is a L&F problem'.

But what I don't understand then is why text fields have different behavior in different dialogs.

For example:

Rename dialog: OS X key combos WORK
Find dialog: OS X key combos DON'T WORK
Structural Replace Dialog: OS X key combos WORK
New Class Dialog: OS X key combos DON'T WORK

I'm confused now. It is chaotic behavior and I don't see a pattern. It is easy to blame it on the L&F but apparently it does work fine in some cases. What's going on here?

S.

Those where shortcuts do work are jetbrains' own
editor component rather
standard Swing JTextField.

I'm sure there is a refactoring in IDEA that allows you to globally replace the JTextField with the one that works better on OS X :)

S.