I'm sure someone will post a more thorough response, but note that not
all keys *have* an ASCII code.  What is ASCII for F1, or up-arrow?

-Lex




"Andrew C. Greenberg" <werdna at mucow.com> wrote:
> 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?