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F1 does not work in dialogs (does not show help). It actually starts working after using F1 out of a dialog (from a TopComponent). In dialogs ShortcutAndMenuKeyEventProcessor checks the actions for "OpenIDE-Transmodal-Action" value. HelpAction has this value, but the action in global key map is an AlwaysEnabledAction wrapper. It seems that until it resolves the delegate action, it does not return "OpenIDE-Transmodal-Action" value correctly.
My fault, due to 5f9b9faab179. Have to implement one of several interfaces just to convince the @AR processor that this cannot be a lazy action.
core-main #3b3c950285e3
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201112080600* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/3b3c950285e3 User: Jesse Glick <jglick@netbeans.org> Log: #206089: F1 not working in dialogs