Hi Fabian,

please consider delivering the keyup and keydown events even if they do not reliable get the keycode. For this cases the keycode can be set to null or can somehow be marked as not usable.

I think just not sending the event (which realy happened) is not the right way.

Maybe there has to be distinguished between the key events by having different classes for the different event types:

qx.event.type.KeyPressedEvent
qx.event.type.KeyUpEvent
qx.event.type.KeyDownEvent

where KeyUp and KeyDown event instances do not have the keyCode property.


Fabian Jakobs schrieb:
Dietrich Streifert schrieb:
Hello list, hi Fabian,

after the changes to the key event handling I run into trouble catching keyup and keydown events of accented characters keys like german umlauts and keys like the plus and minus sign and the sharp sign.

I've attached a testcase which should be run from the frontend/application/sample/source/html/test directory.

The testcase creates a simple text field which has three eventlisteners attached: "keyup", "keydown" and "keypress".

If e.g. the "a" key is pressed all three events are fired (as expected).

If (on a german keyboard) th "a umlaut" key is pressed just the "keypress" event is fired. This is also true for other characters like plus, minus and sharp sign.

Shouldn't keyup and keydown be fired for every key which is pressed?

This is true for FireFox 2.0 under WinXPSP2.

It works as expexted in IE 7
The Problem is that composed characters like ä,ü, ... cannot be detected reliably in keydown and keyup events. In general any character that needs a compose key in any keyboard layout cannot be detected reliably. The keycodes generated for such characters depends on the keyboard layout. Therefore we decided to have consistent support for those keys that are reliable.

Do you realy depend on detecting those keys in keyup/keydown events or can you convert it to use keypress instead?

Best Fabian

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