GWT: Wrong Key Codes generated with a French keyboard
- by Flueras Bogdan
On any french keyboard(AZERTY) the dot char '.' is generated with (Shift + ;) combination while the percent char '%' is generated with (Shift + ù) combination
So when I type one of the above combinations in a GWT text area to write '.' or ' %', the key codes generated for these events are KEY_DELETE in the former case and KEY_LEFT in the latter.
TextArea txtArea = new TextArea();
txtArea.addKeyPressHandler(new KeyPressHandler() {
public void onKeyPress(KeyPressEvent event) {
switch (charCode) {
case KeyCodes.KEY_LEFT: { // key code 37
System.out.write("KEY LEFT");
break;
}
case KeyCodes.KEY_DELETE: { // key code 46
System.out.write("DELETE");
break;
}
}
Workaround: get charCode and do a character match:
charCode = event.getCharCode();
if (charCode == '.') {...}
else if (charCode == '%') {...}
Is this a GWT bug? And is there a more elegant way to handle this ?
