Modified keys not working in a sequence set

[brihogan]

First off, thanks for an awesome library!

I can't seem to get the the sequence functionality working with modified keys (e.g. space,shift+3). Is there a way around this? In other words, I want a user to press the space bar and then the pound key. Ideally it'd be able to do space,#, but space,shift+3 is ok, too.

I've tested space,3 and shift+3 and both work separately (of course), but I can't get space,shift+3 (or the ideal space,#) working.

[keithamus]

Thanks for this bug report! I'll definitely get this working for 0.4.

As an aside, it's really difficult to get keys like # working - on my UK British keyboard, # is between ' and the return key, and my Shift+3 key combo gives me £ (UK GBP symbol)

[brihogan]

So, different keyboards will have a different keycode for the # symbol? That's unfortunate. Too bad there isn't an API that would feed us the actual symbol pressed instead of the keycode of the button pressed - but maybe that'd have limitations, too.

[keithamus]

There is good and bad news.

The good news is there is a proper API for getting the actual key value and not the key code, in the DOM Level 3 Events Spec. (As you can see it has a comprehensive list of key special values here also

The bad news is that it has yet to be implemented by any browser vendors. Webkit browsers (Chrome/Safari) kinda-sorta implement this with KeyboardEvent.keyIdentifier, but using this style of keyboard detection is really an "all or nothing" situation.

However, as soon as one browser supports KeyboardEvent.key/KeyboardEvent.char, I will be working on supporting it for jwerty (in a branch, which will eventually become fully supported in jwerty when the major vendors all support it)