794555 - Trouble binding the colon key (":")

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[steve rader]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120926 Firefox/15.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.12.1
Build ID: 20120926075449

Steps to reproduce:

When I add...
    <key key="o" command="focusURLBar"/>
to platformNavigationBindings.xul, then the 'o' key changes focus to the URL bar. 

I'd like to change this binding to ':' so I added...
    <key key=":"  command="focusURL>
    <key key=";" modifiers="shift" command="focusURLBar"/>
    <key keycode="VK_SEMICOLON" modifiers="shift" oncommand="focusNextFrame(event);"/>

I also tried many various notions of 47 and 0x3a without luck.



Actual results:

The ':' key does nothing. 

 Note: "xev" reports the ':' KeyRelease event as "keycode 47", "keysym 0x3a" and just "colon".


Expected results:

The ':' key should change focus to the URLBar

I also tried various key="47" and key="0x3a" and keycode="47" and keycode="0x3a" and they did not work either.

Comment 1

[steve rader]

Sorry, the first one should read...
  <key key=":" command="focusURLBar"/>

Comment 2

[Philip Chee]

Somebody told me that Masayuki-san is the go-to guy for keyboard questions.

Comment 3

[steve rader]

Masayuki-san, please: how does one bind ':' in e.g. platformNavigationBindings.xul??

Comment 4

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)(PTO: 9/8)]

What keyboard layout are you using? Using English keyboard layout, ':' is Shift+';'. Then, I think that <key key=":" modifiers="shift" command="focusURLBar"/> or <key key=":" modifiers="shift any" command="focusURLBar"/> should work as you expected.

Internally, the key attribute value is compared with charCode of keypress event. At this time, your examples cause checking modifier key state strictly.

<key key=":" modifiers="shift" command="focusURLBar"/> matches only if ":" is shifted position.

<key key=":" modifiers="shift any" command="focusURLBar"/> matches when ":" is inputted either with shift or without shift.

The latter is better for i18n.

Comment 5

[steve rader]

SUCCESS!
I tried a lot of crazy ideas, but not shift+colon!  
[After all, the ':' is already shifted!?!]
Thanks!