String from key code

I'm using Keyboard.StringFromKeyCode(Keyboard.LastKeyCode) to retrieve the name of the last key pressed, for my control config.

For whatever reason it works perfectly for everything but the arrow keys; up, right, and left return a blank string and down returns "(".

Same results in 2 projects. Anyone else have this problem?

Yeah seems it only works for letters and numbers. You better handle other keys yourself.

http://www.cambiaresearch.com/articles/15/javascript-char-codes-key-codes

Ah. I didn't try it with anything other than letters and the arrow keys. Not really sure how to go about that without an event for every key :

Ashley would it be possible to add the rest of the strings at some point?

Yeah. Someone suggested I add an expression to wrap the browser fromCharCode function, but it turns out the browser's function is nearly completely useless. So I'll have to rewrite it to not use that function :P

Ashley Thanks for fixing this in r125. There still aren't any strings for the arrow keys, however. Could you please add those in the next build?

The arrow keys use the unicode symbols for arrows pointing left, up, right and down. They appeared fine for me, but maybe you're using a different font? Perhaps that was too clever to try and use symbols, and I should just replace them with words...

Aha. I'm using a custom bitmap font so that would explain it. Not sure how that's supposed to work with the spritefont plugin though..What would the arrows be on the charmap?

Well, a left arrow is U+2190. A lot of spritefont engines don't support non-ASCII characters, which is quite a big limitation (good luck if you speak a non-latin language). Luckily C2 and all modern browsers support unicode, so you should be able to do something like: if keystring = "?", set to "left arrow".