- From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:57:20 +1000
- To: Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@vicnet.net.au>
Hi Andrew. Andrew Cunningham: > I guess I'm not following this. > > So you're just looking at the scan codes then of the keys being pressed? > > if i press the q/Q key are you looking at a particular physical key key > on the keyboard? i.e. ultimately at the scan codes or virtual key codes? > > or are you looking at a higher level? Yeah that’s right, that level of virtual key codes is what we want to expose via the KeyboardEvent interface, but with platform independent names for the keys. > i.e. the q/Q key on a QWERTY keyboard is a different physical key than > the q|Q key on a AZERTY keyboard. No. > So are you using a positional approach using the virtual keys or scan > codes of the physical keyboard, or are you interpreting the keystroke at > a higher level so that key interpretation is mnemonic, i.e. does it > matter which key is typed? or is it the q-key independent of the > physical position of the q|Q key on the keyboard? Not a positional approach, since we don’t want to go down the road of physical keyboard layouts, but yes the key with identifier "Q" would be the one that generates "q" characters (or "Q" when shift is held, or something completely different if an IME is in use). I believe that is the intention, anyway. Do you mind if I forward this exchange back to public-webapps and public-i18n-core? Thanks, Cameron -- Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/
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