Menu bar accelerators do not work when RichTextFX control has focus

[JFormDesigner]

When the a RichTextFX control is focused, the menu bar accelerators do not work.

In Markdown Writer FX I workaround this by installing all menu bar accelarators into the RichTextFX controls. See: MarkdownEditorPane.java#L130-L132 and MainWindow.java#L302-L327

Made a little test app that demonstrates that menu bar accelarators do not work when a RichTextFX control has focus, but do work when a plain JavaFX text area has focus:

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.*;
import javafx.scene.input.KeyCombination;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import org.fxmisc.richtext.StyleClassedTextArea;

public class RichTextWithMenuBarTest extends Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        StyleClassedTextArea richTextArea = new StyleClassedTextArea();
        richTextArea.replaceText("RichTextFX control - Ctrl+O does not work when focused");

        TextArea textArea = new TextArea("TextArea control - Ctrl+O works when focused");

        BorderPane root = new BorderPane(richTextArea);
        root.setTop(createMenuBar());
        root.setBottom(textArea);

        Scene scene = new Scene(root, 600, 400);
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.setTitle("RichText With MenuBar Test");
        primaryStage.show();
    }

    private MenuBar createMenuBar() {
        MenuItem fileOpenItem = new MenuItem("Open");
        fileOpenItem.setAccelerator(KeyCombination.valueOf("Ctrl+O"));
        fileOpenItem.setOnAction(e -> {
            Alert alert = new Alert(Alert.AlertType.INFORMATION, "Ctrl+O pressed");
            alert.showAndWait();
        });

        Menu fileMenu = new Menu("File", null, fileOpenItem);
        return new MenuBar(fileMenu);
    }
}

Karl

[QAston]

Having the same problem here, Windows, JDK 1.8.0_45

[TomasMikula]

I tried your example, but I cannot reproduce the problem. The Alert dialog gets displayed regardless of which text area is focused. This is on Mac and JDK 8u60. Strangely enough, with JDK 8u40 I get the dialog displayed twice in a row, which might be the same issue as #184.

[JFormDesigner]

I've noticed the problem on Windows 8.1 and JDK 8u60.

[TomasMikula]

OK, I see an issue in the code.

[TomasMikula]

Please, try the newest snapshot.

[QAston]

The snapshot works, thanks for a very quick fix!

[JFormDesigner]

Thanks. Works now in Markdown Writer FX without workaround.

[TomasMikula]

I just published 0.6.10 with this fix.