Ultimately, I believe we'll need to generate a sequence of WebKeyboardEvent objects from this data. (See http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/WebKit/chromium/public/WebInputEvent.h)
WebKeyboardEvent is the data that we send to WebKit corresponding to a keyboard event. I think it is reasonable to base the extension API on this structure. -Darin On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazz...@google.com>wrote: > Hi Darin, > > Erik suggested you might have some thoughts. In my proposed extension > api for accessibility (http://codereview.chromium.org/402099) one of > the functions is to simulate a key press. How should the client > express the key they would like to press? The current proposed > function prototype is: > > { > "name": "simulateKeyPress", > "type": "function", > "description": "Simulate pressing a key.", > "parameters": [ > { > "type": "object", > "name": "keyInfo", > "properties": { > "key": {"type": "integer", "description": "The code of > the key to press, corresponding to event.keyCode."}, > "control": {"type": "boolean", "optional": true, > "description": "True if the control key is down."}, > "shift": {"type": "boolean", "optional": true, > "description": "True if the shift key is down."}, > "alt": {"type": "boolean", "optional": true, > "description": "True if the alt key is down."} > } > } > ] > } > > What do you think? Should the key be a keyCode? A charCode? > > Should it be cross-platform, or should it match what would be returned > by an onKeyDown handler? Are those even mutually exclusive? > > My current thinking is: the symmetry of using the same key codes > returned by onKeyDown is appealing. Also, even though there are some > differences, the most common keys needed to automate the UI (tab, > enter, arrows, alphanumerics) are already consistent across platforms. > > Thanks, > - Dominic >
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