[request] type() should work with different keymap (e.g. dvorak)

[Tsung-Hsiang Chang]

reported by gugod, Matthew Schinckel.

[Ozan Onay (ozan-onay)]

I am seeing this behaviour on Sikuli-IDE-osx-10.5-20091028.

When the run-time keyboard is set to a non-query layout, `type`d letters are incorrectly mapped. For instance, Hello World is typed as "D.nnr <rpne" when the run-time keyboard layout is Dvorak.

[duryodhan (duryodhan)]

also affects Sikuli-IDE-osx-10.6-20091221

[Tsung-Hsiang Chang (vgod)]

in rev 8, we added a new API paste() to send text to applications via clipboard. (which is independent to keymaps)

[Carlos Diener / emonkey (emonkey)]

Workaround with paste() works fine.

[Lars Kobbe (lars-kobbe)]

I have a similar problem with German keyboard layout. Using Type with "<email address hidden>" gives a wrong result. Instead of the @ sign, it types a double quote - which is Shift+2 on the German keyboard.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

This is due to the fact, that internally things are still mapped to the standard US keyboard - no internationalization in this area yet.

This works for me on Mac and Win7 (don't ask me why ;-)
type("something")
keyDown(Key.ALT) # press and hold
type("q") # this is the place of the @ on german keyboard (type("l") # on Mac (lowercase L))
keyUp() # release all pressed keys
type("mailaddress.com")

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

Of course the paste() works too, but clutters clipboard and makes getClipboard() impossible.

[Gregor Kopka (mailfrom-launchpad-net)]

Also a problem when trying to control applications which sample the keyboard lower-level, or don't support the clipboard (eg. certain applications with hardware accelerated graphics)

[Olof Bjarnason (objarni)]

Has there been any progress on this wishlist item?

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

@Olof
No movement yet.

[Lexen (lexen1)]

This bug is not present on the 64bit Linux version of rc1, rc2 or rc3.

[Jan (oa-aegiqter-ot)]

Mac OS X v10.7.4
Sikuli X-1.0rc3 (r905)

Still problems with my keyboard mappings:

German keyboard: "-" becomes "ß"

Chinese keyboard: "你好“ throws even an exception:
[log] TYPE "你好"
[error] Abgebrochen
[error] Ein Fehler in Zeile 25
[error] Fehlermeldung:
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/var/folders/zw/y3s7246958s6_vvpdp50shsc0000gn/T/sikuli-tmp7966794094571103423.py", line 25, in
 type("你好")
 at org.sikuli.script.Key.toJavaKeyCode(Key.java:284)
 at org.sikuli.script.DesktopRobot.typeChar(DesktopRobot.java:118)
 at org.sikuli.script.Region.type(Region.java:809)
 at org.sikuli.script.Region.type(Region.java:789)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot convert character �

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

@ Jan
The situation is the same from beginning and has not yet changed:
type() only works with the standard qwerty US-keyboard.

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