AW: Is there a mapping table for all rawKeyUp Codes? No solution yet with LC 8

Tiemo Hollmann TB toolbook at kestner.de
Tue Dec 6 04:05:23 EST 2016


FYI,
Mark Waddingham has just answered this issue in the QC:
" Whilst Panos has observed a difference between the pre-Cocoa and Cocoa Mac
engines, it was actually incorrect in the pre-Cocoa engines.
The raw keycodes are the keycodes of the actual keyboard keys and not the
characters they represent. The same key will give the same raw keycode
regardless of keyboard layout and it will be unaffected by the modifier key
state (alt, shift etc.)."

Tiemo

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Betreff: AW: Is there a mapping table for all rawKeyUp Codes? No solution
yet with LC 8

Thanks Hermann and Paul for clarifying this to me. I didn't noticed the
difference to *the keysdown*

You say Apple changed the keyboard mapping. I have no idea, if and how this
could affect now LC 8 concerning backward compatibility with older systems.
Will the keysdown give me on "all" systems (from 10.8-10.12) the same codes,
if Apple changed something in any system? Can I rely on this workaround to
get the correct chars, which have been entered on "all" systems?

Has anybody a best guest on how to handle this?

Tiemo

P.S. yes I filed it in the QC


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von hh
Gesendet: Montag, 5. Dezember 2016 23:27
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Betreff: Re: Is there a mapping table for all rawKeyUp Codes? No solution
yet with LC 8

Hi all. Yes that's the point:

*The keysDown* return the correct (hardware) keyCode.
Tiemo is right, there is a bug introduced around LC 8. From the dictionary:

"The keycodes returned by the keysDown function are the same as those passed
as parameters with the rawKeyDown and rawKeyUp messages."

That's not true (I tested with all latest versions of LC 8.1.1 and up and
Paul confirmed for some).
Thus we can possibly locate the bug: Apple changed his keyboard mapping
method around the introduction of LC 8 (it is no longer in easy accessible
files but in "layout bundles").

Was _the keysDown_ adjusted by the LC-team and _rawkeyDown/Up_ not?
Tiemo, you should definitely report this!?

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