[squeak-dev] [BUG] Keyhandling on Windows

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 23:26:27 UTC 2020


Enter and Return are the same key on US keyboards.  They show the
return-arrow graphic AND the word "Enter" printed on them.

I've never known them to be different keys..



On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 2:44 AM Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:

> > Pressing Enter in an editor inserts a carriage return character rather
> than a line feed character.
>
> Then your keyboard is mislabeled. Pressing [return] inserts a CR, pressing
> [enter] inserts an LF. However, there might be design reason for keyboard
> vendors to do otherwise, I suppose.
>
> So you do mean [return]. ;-)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_key#/media/File:Enter.png
>
> Or do you have that numeric keypad overlayed in a way that enabled the
> [return] key to be [enter] and vice versa?
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 03.03.2020 09:06:25 schrieb Thiede, Christoph <
> christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de>:
>
> I mean Enter.
>
>
> :-)
>
>
> This is indeed confusing. Pressing Enter in an editor inserts a carriage
> return character rather than a line feed character. But pressing Ctrl +
> Enter is understood as <Cmd-j>. Never heard of this ascii mapping before. I
> don't see how this would be useful if you use a modern keyboard? I want a
> preference that makes my keyboard "work the same as in Windows" ;-)
>
>
> > This can be quite confusing. I would like to agree on a common
> programming model for keyboard events in Squeak. Too much
> platform-specific, low-level stuff leaks into the image. Even
> inconsistently on the same platform.
>
> This would be definitively useful!
>
> Best,
> Christoph
>
> ------------------------------
> *Von:* Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im
> Auftrag von Taeumel, Marcel
> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 3. März 2020 08:46:18
> *An:* Robert via Squeak-dev
> *Betreff:* Re: [squeak-dev] [BUG] Keyhandling on Windows
>
> > Ctrl + Enter is also broken. It produces keystroke '<Cmd-j>' (106).
>
> Do you mean [enter] or [return]? ;-) "line feed" is actually CTRL-J, which
> is ASCII 10. If you do not happen do have the actual LF key on your
> keyboard, which is [enter].
>
> http://www.physics.udel.edu/~watson/scen103/ascii.html
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_key
>
> If you "duplicate all control/alt keys", that input will be translated to
> an actual [j] (ASCII 106) in the EventSensor.
>
> This can be quite confusing. I would like to agree on a common programming
> model for keyboard events in Squeak. Too much platform-specific, low-level
> stuff leaks into the image. Even inconsistently on the same platform.
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 02.03.2020 19:37:16 schrieb Thiede, Christoph <
> christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de>:
>
> Hi Marcel,
>
>
> thanks, maybe I will take a closer look at it :-)
>
>
> So long, treat this as a note to myself:
>
>
> Ctrl + Enter is also broken. It produces keystroke '<Cmd-j>' (106).
>
>
> Best,
>
> Christoph
> ------------------------------
> *Von:* Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im
> Auftrag von Taeumel, Marcel
> *Gesendet:* Montag, 2. März 2020 10:50:28
> *An:* John Pfersich via Squeak-dev
> *Betreff:* Re: [squeak-dev] [BUG] Keyhandling on Windows
>
> Hi Christoph.
>
> Try looking on squeak-dev for more information about user-input event
> processing and their quirks on various platforms.
>
> In this case, it would help if you could find out the raw event data that
> arrives in Squeak through the EventSensor. It is an array filled with
> numbers. That a look at the class comment from EventSensor.
>
> Considering control keys, also take a look at the mapping tables in
> TextEditor and all its subclasses.
>
> We chose to not touch this issue in 5.3. We might want to harmonize that
> after the release.
>
> I am in favor of programming against "#isControlKeyPressed and
> #keyCharacter ==" instead of actual control keycodes:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character
> http://www.physics.udel.edu/~watson/scen103/ascii.html
>
> It would feel more object-oriented. But that's just my two cents. ;-) I
> rarely work in terminals. Anyway, one could easily map all control keycodes
> to higher-level object events in EventSensor or HandMorph.
>
> Or maybe use [cmd]+[c] instead of [ctrl]+[c] anyway ... Hmmm....
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 28.02.2020 19:24:27 schrieb Thiede, Christoph <
> christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de>:
>
> Ctrl + Home - keystroke '<Cmd-a>' (97)
>
> Ctrl + End - keystroke '<Cmd-d>' (100)
>
> Ctrl + Insert - keystroke '<Cmd-e>'
> Ctrl + PageUp - keystroke '<Cmd-k>'
> Ctrl + PageDown - keystroke '<Cmd-l>' (108)
> Only Ctrl + Delete works ...
> ------------------------------
> *Von:* Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im
> Auftrag von Thiede, Christoph
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 28. Februar 2020 19:20:30
> *An:* Squeak Dev
> *Betreff:* Re: [squeak-dev] [BUG] Keyhandling on Windows
>
>
> Possibly related issue:
>
> Ctrl + End generates an event like this: *keystroke '<Cmd-d>' (100)*
> ------------------------------
> *Von:* Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im
> Auftrag von Thiede, Christoph
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 21. Februar 2020 14:22:18
> *An:* Squeak Dev
> *Betreff:* [squeak-dev] [BUG] Keyhandling on Windows
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> sorry to report to you another, though minor issue related to keyboard
> handling.
>
>
> *Steps to reproduce:*
>
>
>    - Open a fresh trunk image on Windows
>    - turn off num lock (so that 4 works like arrowLeft)
>    - Go to any editor, such as workspace
>    - Press the number key 5
>
>
> *Expected behavior:*
> No character is inserted, as digits are turned off.
>
> *Actual behavior:*
> The quotes character (") is inserted.
>
> *Notes:*
> The issue already existed in Squeak 5.2, 4.6 and 3.9 (from my random
> tests).
>
> Best,
> Christoph
>
>
>
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