As I began messing around with the new event paradigm, I noted that KeyUp and KeyDown events pass individual Key Codes, rather than their ASCII equivalents.
Is there any reason that the ASCII equivalent, when available, is not carried somewhere in the keyUp/Down event objects? It would be convenient and, particularly for games, faster, to have that information be readily available without an additional lookup in some applications without having to process two separate events.
In the Macintosh implementation, this information is available beneath the scenes -- in fact, it is separately parsed out of a single MacOS event into two Squeak events. I'm not asking for a change in the semantics -- just the convenience of having both keycode and ascii equivalent in the same keydown record.
Or am I missing something?