Key is Down bug.

Problem Description

when a form element gain focus, the key is down events continue to fire if the button was being pressed.

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Description of Capx

key is down events change text, a form input box to click while key is down.

When you hold spacebar and click the inputbox, then release spacebar, it continues to fire the key is down event.

Only when you click off the input and then press spacebar again and release it will it stop firing.

Expected Result

the key is down should stop firing if button is released while a form element is focused.

Affected Browsers

all

vista

r250

Make sure to put Ashley or Tom to get their attention.

This was reported as a C2 bug and not a C3 one. Also I think tagging the devs in posts in the bugs section is kind of redundant.

Anyways, what's happening is the textbox object, once selected, blocks most all input events from passing through it to anything else. So the keyboard state (which is stored in a array in the keyboard object) isn't updated when the spacebar key is released.

I'm not the developer, but you can make the keyup events not be blocked from the textbox object as a self fix. It would make the key released triggers fire as you type stuff, but perhaps that's acceptable in your case.

Anyways, set the textbox id property to something like "foo" and then using the browser object run this code:

start of layout
-- browser: execute js: "$(document.getElementById('foo')).off('keyup');"