Shortcut F8 not working

[grimes2]

JabRef 3.7-dev--snapshot--2016-11-08--master--fffad83
windows 10 10.0 amd64
Java 1.8.0_111

The shortcut F8 for Cleanup entries... is not working for me.

[stefan-kolb]

Thank you for your report 😄
I can reproduce the behavior.

[koppor]

@mairdl @Braunch Can you have a look?

[Braunch]

I will have a look.

[Braunch]

I think it has something to do with the mainTable selecting the authors row when pressing F8. It's a JTable functionality. I tried adding this line inputMap.put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("F8"), "none"); in the MainTable constructor. But this didn't override the F8 functionality. Does someone have any ideas how to fix this?

[matthiasgeiger]

Just noticed, that F7 for "Automatically set file links" seems to work. Can you investigate the differences between these two functionalities?

[grimes2]

http://www.java-forum.org/thema/f8-im-jtable.70666/

Why not use Alt+F8?

[Braunch]

We should try to evade the alt key since it often is reserved for OS specific keybindings. I found that link before and I read the KeyBindings Javadoc what brought me to my attempt. But it does not work and I don't know why. @matthiasgeiger same for F9, it's just because the F8 key is used by the JTable.

[koppor]

I think, the decision is to change both F8 and F9 to include the Alt key.

[koppor]

F9 works perfectly here, so I change only F8