[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 118445] [Qt] QtWebKit should allow sending domain specific keycode to HTML applications

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118445





--- Comment #24 from Allan Sandfeld Jensen <allan.jensen at digia.com>  2013-07-23 05:51:10 PST ---
(In reply to comment #23)
> (In reply to comment #22)
> > (In reply to comment #20)
> > > (In reply to comment #19)
> > > > If you can make due with the keycodes outside of what Qt uses >255 <0x01000000. We could pass them through as there is no overlap. Though I think the best solution would be a setting to let us know were are in CE mode.
> > > 
> > > I'm getting your point :) But I'm sure adding a new property to a Qt's QKeyEvent is a painful job, because WebKit has to wait until the stable Qt release(with the change).
> > > 
> > Right, but perhaps you could use the existing nativeVirtualKeyCode field then.
> 
> Yeah, I too thought the same, but will it cause any confusion to the one who is seeing the code?
> 
> I know that 2 properties like nativeVirtualKeyCode, nativeScanCode are there. But what value it holds in X11/Windows ..?
> 
> I'm thinking like incase of Windows for left arrow key, 
> nativeVirtualKeyCode = VK_LEFT
> keycode = Qt::Key_Left
> nativeScanCode = <some keyboard driver scan code>
> 
> Isn't it?

True, but since you are generating your own QKeyEvents you are essentially a new "native" source of key-events. These values are usually only there for applications that need to detect keys not fully supported or detected by Qt, similar to your case.

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