On 27/04/16 12:15, Andreas Tolfsen wrote: > Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:51:13 +0100 James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk>: >> On 27/04/16 11:43, Andreas Tolfsen wrote: >>> Whilst it is possible to fake holding down a key by factoring in the >>> frame rate and the OS key repeat rate to generate x DOM events over >>> the course of y seconds, this quickly gets us into the realm of >>> reproducing realistic time frames. >> >> Based on http://unixpapa.com/js/testkey.html it seems like holding >> down a key generates a number of keydown+keypress events, but a >> single keyup event. So it seems quite reasonable to model this with >> multiple actions as long the spec doesn't have anything special to >> coalesce multiple keyDown actions without an intervening keyUp action. > > Because we generate synthetic DOM events for actions, we would need an > off-thread state system sufficiently capable to perform this. I think we are talking past each other here. I mean that if you want to simulate holding down a key you could send actions like [{keyDown, "a"}, {keyDown, "a"}, {keyDown, "a"}, {keyUp, "a"}]Received on Wednesday, 27 April 2016 12:17:23 UTC
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