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POWhy isn't the keypress event being sent to GWT's TextInputCell.onBrowserEvent() method?
 

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    <h2>The question:</h2> <p>I'm overriding the GWT <code>TextInputCell.onBrowserEvent()</code> method to try and apply filtering on the characters that are typed in to the field. How can I can't get the actual character that the user typed in on a <code>keydown</code> event?</p> <h2>What I've tried:</h2> <p>I can use the <code>NativeEvent.getKeyCode()</code> method to get the key code, but this is insufficient because I want to know the specific character they typed in, so I can compare the character to a regular express. As I understand it, the keyCode just tells me the key they typed on the keyboard, so I can't discriminate between a capital 'A' and a lowercase 'a'. I can also grab the value from the <code>InputElement</code> on the <code>keyup</code> event, but this is too late, because the character has already been rendered to the UI element.</p> <p>When I call <code>NativeEvent.getCharCode()</code> it returns 0 for any character I type. I tried this on Chrome and on Firefox. Why does <code>getCharCode()</code> always return 0? Is this a bug? </p> <p>For example, here is what I tried and the values I get when I type in the number '1' on the keyboard:</p> <pre><code>event.getKeyCode() - 49 event.getCharCode() - 0 Character.toChars(event.getCharCode())[0] - (a box character because charCode was 0) String.valueOf(Character.toChars(event.getCharCode())) - (a box character because charCode was 0) String.valueOf((char) event.getKeyCode()) - 1 </code></pre> <h2>Update:</h2> <p>OK, so I see that I need to capture the <code>keypress</code> event and not <code>keydown</code>, but I print off every <code>event.getType()</code> value for every event that occurs as I type and I never see a single <code>keypress</code> event triggered. So my updated question is, why isn't the <code>keypress</code> event occurring? And if I can't capture it in the <code>TextInputCell.onBrowserEvent()</code> method, is there a different way to capture it for a <code>TextInputCell</code>. </p>
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