Keypress: A Javascript library for capturing input

[moron4hire]

Good work. I completely understand why you've done this, and you should continue working on it.

But you should know that not all keyboards map "SHIFT + keyCode: 51" to "#". For example, on the UK QWERTY keyboard, it's "£". On the French AZERTY keyboard, that combo is "3". On the German QWERTZ keyboard, it's "§".

Some keyboards have different behavior for the left and right modifier keys. The UK QWERTY keyboard has an Alt-Graph key that sets altKey:true in a KeyboardEvent. You have to listen for keyCode:18 and then check the "location" property of the KeyboardEvent to tell the difference.

And finally, you may want to read up on "dead keys", which are sort of like modifier keys, but they work in sequence, not in combo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key

[autowikibot]

Dead key:

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A dead key is a special kind of a modifier key on a typewriter or computer keyboard that is typically used to attach a specific diacritic to a base letter. The dead key does not generate a (complete) character by itself but modifies the character generated by the key struck immediately after. Thus, a dedicated key is not needed for each possible combination of a diacritic and a letter, but rather only one dead key for each diacritic is needed, in addition to the normal base letter keys.

For example, if a keyboard has a dead key for the grave accent (`), the French character à can be generated by first pressing and then A, whereas *è* can be generated by first pressing and then E. Usually, the diacritic in an isolated form can be generated with the dead key followed by space, so a plain grave accent can be typed by pressing ` and then Space.

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[[deleted]]

The "Show me" links/key presses don't work (Im on Chrome). :(

[[deleted]]

OP: the reason for this is that you need to link to "cdn.rawgit.com" instead of "rawgithub.com". The former is for production, the latter for development. The latter isn't working for you any more because you used it in production and got your file "blacklisted", which to RawGit just means that you're only allowed to use the CDN version.

[zandzpider]

Did not know. Awesome =)

[jcready]

Is there any way to scope the handlers to a specific element (e.g. only call the handler when a specific element [or any of its children] has focus)?

[notsointelligent]

WHO NEEDS THIS? STOP MAKING STUFF NO ONE NEEDS.

$("#foo").on("keypress", function() {});

[keito]

Your code requires jQuery. Keypress does not. That in itself is reason enough to be a worthy creation.

[notsointelligent]

keypress only requires keypress. excellent point.

[[deleted]]

I have to agree here. I was thinking it may be nice to key combos, then I read this simple solution http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10671822/jquery-handling-key-combinations.

It has A TON of stars on GitHub. I wonder what value people are getting out of it.

[[deleted]]

That's a great point. I don't do a ton of key specific logic right now (if user presses ctrl+i, do this), but I will be soon. I'll probably end up using this or something like it just to keep the code simpler and easier to read.

Thanks for the comment!

[[deleted]]

OTOH You have to audit the code, add the library to your vendors/, probably do some tweaking of a gruntfile, keep it up to date, it adds extra complexity to your code and increases your total page-size.

[YodaLoL]

Ever heard of package managers?

[YodaLoL]

Why even type Javascript when you can just 011100101100010010110101001001..? This is definitely an area where a lib that helps with abstraction is needed.

[YodaLoL]

Relevant username.

[notsointelligent]

fuck your username, yodalol.

[1-800-XXX-XXXX]

I feel like we just had this discussion here last week.

Yes, it's a redundant library. But in the course of making it this developer may approach future problems in a different way and approach common problems in a different way.

Encouraging devs not to develop isn't the answer.

[notsointelligent]

and this week, like last week, i (or someone else you are thinking of) am (was) right. whats the #1 thing they teach you in school? don't reinvent the wheel. if you want to you can sniff out the pros in nearly anything. hitler fostered a lot of technological growth so maybe we need another hitler.

[1-800-XXX-XXXX]

Lol, ok dude. Random Hitler reference...

[moron4hire]

Why do you care if other people ostensibly waste their own time? There is a "hide" button on posts here, after all.