Thomas, I am not sure I understand what you are saying. I need the
last char pressed by the user(on key down/up). How do you get that?

On Aug 14, 6:31 pm, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 août, 21:37,rakeshwagh<rake...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Today While extending the TextBox, I encountered very strange
> > behaviour.
> > All alphabets returned by event.getNativeKeyCode() are upper case.
> > Here is sample program:
>
> > public class TextBox extends com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.TextBox{
> >         public TextBox() {
> >                         super();
> >                         addKeyDownHandler(new KeyDownHandler(){
> >                                 public void onKeyDown(KeyDownEvent event) {
> >                                         int key = event.getNativeKeyCode();
> >                                         System.out.println("key: " + 
> > (char)key);
> >                                 }
> >                         }
> >         }
>
> > }
>
> > Enter characters in lower case, it will print upper case to the
> > console. I thought of checking with the group before raising it as an
> > issue. Any idea on what's going on here?
>
> You're confusing "key codes" with "characters". Key codes (as well as
> keydown and keyup events) are really about keyboard *keys* that you
> depress (or at least should be, as it differs a bit amongst browsers).
>
> This was really confusing in GWT 1.5 and previous versions, since GWT
> 1.6 and the new events, it's a bit clearer, but still somewhat buggy
> (see issue 
> 3753:http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=3753
> )
>
> See also issues 72 (among 
> others):http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=72
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