Posted by Sven Gothel on Nov 10, 2011; 7:45pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/KeyPressed-AWT-vs-NEWT-tp3497492p3497782.html

On Thursday, November 10, 2011 07:05:44 PM jouvieje [via jogamp] wrote:
>
> I've find a difference between KeyPressed from NEWT vs AWT. All KeyPressed
> events from newt have an undefined key char, while awt.KeyEvent have a valid
> key char.

Yup, only on key typed KeyEvent delivers a valid key char in NEWT.
This is shown in all unit tests, but I shall add this to the API doc - thx.

The key code is always valid though.

>
> I have a workaround (not pretty) to handle the differences, but that would
> be great to have same behavior with  awt/newt.

The reason for this NEWTY behavior 'was' that we couldn't get the proper
char value on one platform for 'pressed', I guess it was Windows :)

>
> I'm using JOGL b544 with windows 7. Does anyone have seen this different in
> different os too ?

See above.

Hmm .. maybe you can fix it in NEWT ?
I may check on this later .. pls file a bug report in bugzilla.

Thank you..

~Sven