keyboard-events

For a rich web application, I need keyboard shortcuts. Because there are many different keyboard layouts, they have to be configurable. Unfortunately, I can't figure out a way to map keyboard events to human-readable shortcut names such as Ctrl + Alt + Y or Alt + \ . The keypress event is useless since it doesn't fire for all keys. Here are some properties of keydown events: charCode : Works only for printable characters. Deprecated , according to MDN code : Works, but ignores the keyboard layout. When I press Z, I get code: "KeyY" on my German keyboard. key : Works, but gives different

I want to create a virtual keyboard in osx. Is it possible? I mean can I make a program that gives same signals than real keyboard. Example of this kind of keyboard would be onscreen keyboard, or keybord viewer (does it have necessary interface btw). How low should I start? Should I make a device driver e.g. virtual (wireless) keyboard? Or does cocoa etc. have the necessary stuff? The requirements I have are: - a list of tuples (time, key_down/key_up, key_code) corresponds to person typing - virtual keyboard should work side by side with the real one (like touchpad and bluetooh mouse) - this

I am building an multimedia console based on an old computer running Win7. I want to control the players with a numeric keyboard. I can't use the common media control devices because they respond only to windows media player. I will use the KVM Player, Winamp and others. So each one has it's own set of keyboard shortcuts for play, pause, foward, volume etc. For that I am thinking of building a Delphi application that detects the foreground application and gets from a database the shortcuts this application uses. When I use the numeric keyboard (the size of a regular remote control) and press 5

I am currently looking for a library that is able to detect/monitor the keyboard. My intention is to detect when a key is being held down and while it occurs something should happen. Most SO posts suggest to use pygame, but i find it a bit too much, to involve a library such as that for this simple task. i've also tried with pynput , which resulted only detecting one press rather than a stream of presses. any suggestions on how i can make this while loop detect a key is being pressed / held down... My attempt with while loop: from pynput import keyboard def on_press(key): while key == keyboard

I saw here a solution, but i don't want wait until the key is pressed. I want to get the last key pressed. jsbueno The related question may help you, as @S.Lott mentioned: Detect in python which keys are pressed I am writting in, though to give yu advice: don't worry about that. What kind of program are you trying to produce? Programas running on a terminal usually don't have an interface in which getting "live" keystrokes is interesting. Not nowadays. For programs running in the terminal, you should worry about a usefull command line User Interfase, using the optparse or other modules. For

Say I have a web application that calls the following jQuery every time a user presses a key in a textarea with an ID of "txt": $('#txt').keydown(function(e) { console.log(e.which); // shows the keyCode console.log(e.shiftKey); } On a desktop browser, for characters like ( and 9 , I can distinguish between the two by checking to see if the shift key is held down (with e.shiftKey). However, in Safari for iPad, there is no shift key required to type those characters. So, for example, pressing both ( and 9 on the iPad's keyboard logs "57" in the console for the keyCode. The value logged for e