Class TextField KeyDown problem

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When I hit the key "@" in French keyboard (key at left of "1")

in event KeyDown generate KeyName = "D2" like press key "2"

Garry

Thanks for reporting this. This was an Objo bug that is now fixed in the next release: https://feedback.objo.dev/bug/928

The problem was caused by Objo treating text input as though it were an additional keyboard event. It then tried to convert characters such as @ back into keys using a US keyboard mapping. That assumption breaks on international layouts and could also cause KeyDown to fire twice: once for the real key press and once for the resulting text.

This has now been fixed for the next release:

KeyDown and KeyUp are generated only by genuine native keyboard events.
Text input, dead-key composition and IME output no longer create synthetic KeyDown events.
The existing keyName parameter remains the logical key and follows the active keyboard layout.
Keyboard.KeySymbol provides the exact symbol associated with the event, such as "@", "é" or "2".
Keyboard.PhysicalKey identifies the physical key position using its US-QWERTY equivalent.
Keyboard.IsPhysicalKeyDown() is available for games that need controls to remain in the same physical positions across different layouts.

For example:

Function TextField1_KeyDown(keyName As String) As Boolean
    If Keyboard.KeySymbol = "@" Then
        Print("The @ symbol was entered")
    End If

    Return False
End Function

Games and canvas applications are not losing keyboard events: every real native KeyDown still fires normally. They can use logical keys for layout-aware controls or the new physical-key API for fixed-position controls such as WASD.

For text fields, TextChanged remains the correct event for observing the resulting text, including pasted text and composed international characters.