webBrowser incorrect key strokes

Bugs
1

There is an issue with specific characters in the webBrowser component. specifically > & ’ do not enter correctly, they show up correctly in the table but show up within the browser as . & # respectively.

replicated this behaviour on two windows machines.

tested copy & paste for those characters still works

2023.11600 commercial & 2023.11880 non commercial

2

Hey @shamanic

What is your keyboard layout?

Best,
Michel

3

all 3 keyboards tested are qwerty UK variants.
windows doesnt seem to have a good native tool to check the exact keyboard specs

4

I’m seeing an issue with the > only being sent as . on a US QWERTY. Can’t repro the other one.

But this is logged to be looked into.

Best,
Michel

5

Probably same issue:

6

I was having this same issue with international keyboards on a project. I was able to solve it by rewriting the keyboardin1_callbacks in the WebBrowser comp with the following script:

# me - this DAT
# 
# dat - the DAT that received the key event
# key - the name of the key attached to the event
# character - the ASCII value of the pressed key as a string
# alt - True if the alt modifier is pressed
# ctrl - True if the ctrl modifier is pressed
# shift - True if the shift modifier is pressed
# state - True if the event is a key press event
# time - the time when the event came in milliseconds

def onKey(dat, key, character, alt, lAlt, rAlt, ctrl, lCtrl, rCtrl, shift, lShift, rShift, state, time):
	if state:
		if character != '' and character in "@€~\\{}[]|.,":
			ui.clipboard = character
			op('webrender1').sendKey('v', ctrl=1)
		elif key.isdigit():
			op('webrender1').sendKey(ord(key), alt=alt, ctrl=ctrl, shift=shift)
		else:
			op('webrender1').sendKey(key, alt=alt, ctrl=ctrl, shift=shift)

# shortcutName is the name of the shortcut

def onShortcut(dat, shortcutName, time):
	return;

This has been working with the German layout keyboards I’ve tested, including all the special characters. If a character is still incorrect it can be added to the second if statement in the quoted string of custom characters. The downside is that it uses copy/paste to paste the character into the browser, so it may overwrite your clipboard.

Hope that helps!

7

Nice! Smart solution. Im hoping to make my component able to support any keyboard configuration, so maybe I can add a way for the users to set / select their specific keyboard configuration. thanks for this

8

Nice workaround, but it also clears the clipboard, what might be unwanted.
So a real bug fix is still necessary.