Html Widget and userKey trigger

Hello

I have a problem with an html widget when the focus is on the html widget and not focused for example on an editbox within the frm component. 

When I press for example 'shift+-' the userKey trigger is not fired. Other key combinations do not work either.

Any ideas how to get this to work?

Thanks

Observations:

Shift++ works but I think that is because + is a gold key

I tried this but it did not help 

putitem/id sProperties, "UnifaceKeys", "Shift+-"

$properties($sHtmlField$) = sProperties

This does work, for example with esc but shift(-) is not part of the functionality

putitem/id sProperties, "UnifaceKeys", "DefaultKeys"

$properties($sHtmlField$) = sProperties

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okay... so my conclusion based on some tests is thus:-

unifacekeys does work as it says in the documentation.  It works with alt, ctrl, shift.

There are 2 keyboard codes (typewriter and keypad) for each of these (alt, ctrl, shift). 

I'm thinking that unifacekeys works with typewriter keycodes (128, 129,130 ) but not keypad codes(136,137,138). 

If this is the case then a workaround is necessary or maybe a patch can be added at a later date ?

Can anyone confirm or deny this assumption?

Thanks in advance

Hi Osman

Patch 10.4.02-033 added the ability to attach a keyword to a key combination in the ini file ([userkeys]). When the key combination is used, the keyword is passed to the user key to take action. This works on all widgets, including the HTML widget.

Kind regards,

Mike

Hello

I have a problem with an html widget when the focus is on the html widget and not focused for example on an editbox within the frm component. 

When I press for example 'shift+-' the userKey trigger is not fired. Other key combinations do not work either.

Any ideas how to get this to work?

Thanks

Observations:

Shift++ works but I think that is because + is a gold key

I tried this but it did not help 

putitem/id sProperties, "UnifaceKeys", "Shift+-"

$properties($sHtmlField$) = sProperties

This does work, for example with esc but shift(-) is not part of the functionality

putitem/id sProperties, "UnifaceKeys", "DefaultKeys"

$properties($sHtmlField$) = sProperties

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Osman Shariff
Freelance Uniface Consultant - France

Private message me if you need help with a project
English, French, German
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Userkeys

When using userkeys in uniface, it is important to use the Shift key with some precautions.

For instance, the Shift+- does not work. Windows key '-' = 45 gets through but is not picked up.

Defining Shift++ does not work since the '+' is part of the syntax definition of the userkey, and even when we split this up, it does not work as expected.

What works are the following

capital_h=Shift+H

OpenBracket=Shift+9

Star=Shift+8

Try to avoid conflicting key combinations. For instance, the Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+C (Clipboard). To make things easier, I would recommend creating a form with an editbox and an HTML widget which only has a simple line of html. Edit the userkeys section in the usys.ini and add to the component level triggers the userkey trigger.

Trigger userkey

Message/info $result

End

Play around with this and see what works. Avoid using the same key-combinations as defined in the menu accelerator table, since the latter has precedence over the userkeys.

Success in finding the right key.

Thanks Jasper, these were my finding too.

Sadly, I have no choice but to use shift+-, but I have a workaround so no worries.

I like the new userkeys functionality even though there is very little written about it.  Maybe an update in the documention would be nice.