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[!] key doesn't work on french keyboard with windows XP-Seven
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On french "azerty" keyboard, the "!" char is in place of the key "/?" on the english keyboard (right-down). When you edit a file or a value, this key doesn't work with Windows XP - 7. But it works well with Linux.

Blender 2.56a

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Eric LE PAPE (elpnb) edited a custom field.Jan 19 2011, 1:00 PM
Ton Roosendaal (ton) added a comment.Jan 19 2011, 4:09 PM

Nice one for the King!

Nathan Letwory (jesterking) added a comment.Jan 20 2011, 1:54 PM

Do you create the ! using AltGr as well?

Eric LE PAPE (elpnb) added a comment.Jan 20 2011, 2:34 PM

No, ! is created without Shift, Ctrl or AltGr key.
When I press !, Windows beeps.

Nathan Letwory (jesterking) added a comment.Jan 21 2011, 2:55 PM

Hmm, I wonder how I am supposed to reproduce this so I can potentially fix it.

Nathan Letwory (jesterking) added a comment.Jan 21 2011, 2:58 PM

Ok, I can change key layout to french keyboard. No ! added while pressing it, but no beep either.

Eric LE PAPE (elpnb) added a comment.Jan 21 2011, 3:19 PM

I've just tried it. No more beep...

Nathan Letwory (jesterking) added a comment.Jan 24 2011, 12:42 PM

Ok, I looked deeper into the problem: when I use azerty, I get for that key the virtual keycode VK_OEM_8. Blender doesn't handle VK_OEM* keycodes, so this still needs to be added.

I need to think this a bit over how to support this in a nice way, so we can easily extend for other similar situations. Also, this brings up the question whether we want to support this kind of key events as well, maybe for keyboards with many extra buttons on them.

Nathan Letwory (jesterking) added a comment.Jan 24 2011, 3:38 PM

Fixed in r34478.

Nathan Letwory (jesterking) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Resolved.Jan 24 2011, 3:38 PM