Handle ^ and ¨ in a field

[Ken Ray]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:14:35 +0200, Björnke von Gierke wrote:

> 
> On 7 Apr 2008, at 12:17, Jean-Pierre wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I want to handle caracter one by one in a field.
>> 
>> If I use keyUp : caracter was missing when user type rapidly.
>> 
>> If I use keyDown : accentued caracter such â,ê,ï was missing.
>> 
>> What can I do ?
> 
> 
> Revs international char support in keyUp/down is... sub optimal. I 
> suggest to use rawkeydown or rawkeyup until they update the other 
> ones, but of course that'll be a lot of additional work for you.

And it also doesn't work properly (at least on a Mac). If you type 
option-u, then "o" in order to get an "o" with an umlaut, you (a) don't 
get any rawKeyDown message when you type option-u, (b) when you type 
the "o" you get the o with the umlaut in the field you're typing in, 
but the rawKeyUp message returns "117" for the "u" you typed, and then 
another rawKeyUp of "111" for the "o", and finally (c) you can't 
prevent the user from entering accented characters into a field - 
normally if you trap rawKeyDown or rawKeyUp and don't pass it, you 
won't get anything entered in the field. But accented characters bypass 
this and display automatically.

I just entered this into RQCC: 
http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6347



Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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