On Feb 14, 1:29 am, AB <[email protected]> wrote:
> The newish event handler system seems designed to prevent getting a
> keycode from the KeyDown and KeyUp events?

You mean a char code? or KeyPress event?

> Does anyone know the reasoning behind this?

Key down/up events are designed for keys, not chars, contrary to
keypress.

> This creates a problem. For example, in IE, if one wants to detect
> autorepeats of a non char key like an uparrow, you only get it on a
> KeyDown event (seehttp://unixpapa.com/js/key.html). Since the
> KeyPress does not get repeats (in IE for arrow keys), I need an
> KeyDown event handler that knows they key that was hit (maybe i could
> write enough logic to first sense the keypress, then remember that
> keycode,...)

OK, so you seem to really be talking about KeyDown/KeyUp and key code
(arrow keys).

Have you looked at the events' getNativeKeyCode() method and the
KeyCodes class?

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