Robotjs: Special chars/Shift key not working

[tms1337]

As the title says special chars, i.e. '@' cant be typed using typeString or typeStringDelayed method. For the case of '@' with US keyboard, '2' is typed. This leads me to conclude that shift key is not working somehow.

I use Ubuntu 16.04, more specifically this AMI from AWS EC2 https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01MEG2PVE?ref=cns_srchrow

node version is v8.9.1
robotjs version as per package.son is {... "robotjs": "^0.4.7", ...}

I know there are earlier versions of the same issue, but they seem to be resolved by some pull requests. I would like to make one if you can point me to the part of the code that needs to be edited.

[tms1337]

I used tapKey workaound with shift modifier, but I will still leave the issue open so it can be investigated

[canonic-epicure]

Same here. Looks like a lot of characters can not be used in "typeString" method.

[YanDevDe]

Not even äöüß is working. Best solution would be if the keyTap/keyToggle would accept keycode/rawcode (like from iohook) too. So you can just enter integer keycode in keyTap instead string which its limited.

As example, if you want to enter "E", which code for "E" is 69, so you enter "robot.keyTap(69);" to tap "E", This allow us more chars support.
For typeString -> maybe arrays of chars so it can support special chars too?

More information about virtual key:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/windows/desktop/dd375731(v=vs.85).aspx

[edit]
I realized this is about typeString and not keyTap/keyToggle, so I created new issues for that https://github.com/octalmage/robotjs/issues/386

[oktapodia]

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