Try to handle Meta key properly

The standards have unfortunatly caused some confusion between the Windows
key and the original Meta key. Try to handle the common case sanely at least.
pull/36/head
Pierre Ossman 6 years ago committed by Lauri Kasanen
parent 443858cf83
commit 7dc51fa7a5

@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
import KeyTable from "./keysym.js";
import keysyms from "./keysymdef.js";
import vkeys from "./vkeys.js";
import fixedkeys from "./fixedkeys.js";
@ -145,6 +146,18 @@ export function getKeysym(evt) {
location = 0;
}
// The original Meta key now gets confused with the Windows key
// https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1020141
// https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1232918
if (key === 'Meta') {
let code = getKeycode(evt);
if (code === 'AltLeft') {
return KeyTable.XK_Meta_L;
} else if (code === 'AltRight') {
return KeyTable.XK_Meta_R;
}
}
return DOMKeyTable[key][location];
}

@ -192,6 +192,12 @@ describe('Helpers', function () {
expect(KeyboardUtil.getKeysym({code: 'AltRight', key: 'Alt', location: 2})).to.be.equal(0xFFEA);
expect(KeyboardUtil.getKeysym({code: 'AltRight', key: 'AltGraph', location: 2})).to.be.equal(0xFE03);
});
it('should handle Meta/Windows distinction', function () {
expect(KeyboardUtil.getKeysym({code: 'AltLeft', key: 'Meta', location: 1})).to.be.equal(0xFFE7);
expect(KeyboardUtil.getKeysym({code: 'AltRight', key: 'Meta', location: 2})).to.be.equal(0xFFE8);
expect(KeyboardUtil.getKeysym({code: 'MetaLeft', key: 'Meta', location: 1})).to.be.equal(0xFFEB);
expect(KeyboardUtil.getKeysym({code: 'MetaRight', key: 'Meta', location: 2})).to.be.equal(0xFFEC);
});
it('should return null for unknown keys', function () {
expect(KeyboardUtil.getKeysym({key: 'Semicolon'})).to.be.null;
expect(KeyboardUtil.getKeysym({key: 'BracketRight'})).to.be.null;

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