[Spice-devel] Announcing the first version of spice-html5

[Yaniv Kaul]

----- Original Message -----
> >> *blush*  Yes, sorry, the keyboard code is truly awful.  It's a
> >> matter of
> >> translating web key codes into scan codes; I didn't find a good
> >> way to
> >> do it, and just used a brute force hack. If you're at all a
> >> programmer,
> >> it would be easy to extend the hack and fix the key codes for
> >> yourself;
> >> that code is in utils.js.
> > 
> > No escape to get the scancode from the browser? have to wait for
> > html6?
> 
> None that I found (which is not necessarily !== none <grin>).  All I
> could find were faqs that said key codes in general are a mess and
> not
> standardized (they apparently vary by browser), and certainly nothing
> to
> go from key codes to scan codes.

I agree - and this is why I did not implement the translation in the Wireshark dissector for the protocol.
If you do find something sane, I'll try and adopt it too.
Y.

> 
> My thought was to later explore some of the third party libraries
> that
> try to mitigate these issues, and see if riffing off one of those
> leads
> to a slightly less ugly solution.
> 
> There are also some tricky issues around keyboard handling I didn't
> even
> begin to think about (e.g. tab, escape, alt-tab, and so on).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeremy
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