KeyListener - not quite sure how to set it up

General JUCE discussion
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class xAudioProcessorEditor  : public AudioProcessorEditor, public SliderListener, public Timer, public KeyListener
{
public:

...
	bool keyPressed (const KeyPress &key, Component *originatingComponent);
...
};

xAudioProcessorEditor::xAudioProcessorEditor (xAudioProcessorEditor* ownerFilter)
{
...
    addKeyListener(this)
    setWantsKeyboardFocus(true);
}

bool x::keyPressed (const KeyPress &key, Component *originatingComponent)
{
...//breakpoint set here
}

can anyone see anything wrong? all i want to eventually do is update the text field of a label to what the user is typing. i’m not doing anything differently to others ive found after a search and yet keyPressed is not running.

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this is really holding me up now, can anyone shed any light? i’m looking through the demo projects now which handle keyboard events fine but i cant see how its all being registered.

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Hard to tell what you’re doing wrong from that snippet, but you’ve probably just attached your listener to a component that doesn’t have the keyboard focus, so isn’t getting any events.

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i dont know if it’s relevant but I just checked LRESULT peerWindowProc (HWND h, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) in juce_win32_Windowing.cpp and the function never receives a WM_CHAR message when i click a key, even after bringing the plugin window to focus and clicking on it. but it does in the Juce Demo. Should I be registering the keyboard as a broadcaster somewhere?

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Ah, if it’s a plugin, then you might not be getting any keypresses at all - some hosts eat them before the plugin gets them. Search the forum for various threads bemoaning this kind of thing…

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ah right, that explained it. i was using savihost as the plugin host. just switched to nuendo and its all working now. thank you Jules.