no TextEntered event on backspace/delete on mac

[texus]

When pressing the backspace or delete key no TextEntered events are sent on Mac OS X (Lion).
Only the KeyPressed events are sent.

More information: http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=7450.0

[mantognini]

I guess Apple's engineers did something wrong with the unicode values. The two following keys are not bound to the correct unicode value.

backspace

Key Down
Characters: �
Unicode:        127 / 0x7f
Keys:       ⌫
Key Code:   51 / 0x33
Modifiers:  256 / 0x100

delete

Key Down
Characters: 
Unicode:        63272 / 0xf728
Keys:       ⌦
Key Code:   117 / 0x75
Modifiers:  8388864 / 0x800100

[retep998]

Differing behavior of keyboards based on OS/localization?
Yet another case of issue #7?

[mantognini]

hum... not really. In issue #7 we are discussing sf::Event::Key(Pressed|Released) implementation.

In this (#192) issue we have a bug with sf::Event::TextEntered which is not related to the above event. Here the physical key doesn't matter but the "global" keyboard state matter in order to distinguish 'A' from 'a' and so on.

Note that this bug seems to be on Apple's side.

[CelticMinstrel]

I'm not sure why you'd expect backspace and delete to be seen as text entry? They don't produce any character you'd want to insert into a string being edited.

[mantognini]

It's useful to erase the last char of a string without mixing both KeyReleased and TextEntered events. See some code samples on the forum for a proper example.

[CelticMinstrel]

I guess it can be useful; I think mixing the events is generally the better way to go though.