Shorcut keystrokes tests

Audio Plugins
1

Hi Jules,

I saw in the forum that improvements had been made on the timeless problem of shortcut keystrokes with TextEditors on plugins, so I update my Juce library that was one year old.

I tested all plugin formats (excepted VST3) on all DAW I had and here are my results:

Mac (10.9):

       VST (Cubase/Live)           OK
       VST (Reaper)                    Spacebar key not caught by the text editor.
       AU (Logic/Live)                OK
       AU (Reaper)                     Spacebar key not caught by the text editor.
       RTAS (PT 10)                    OK
       AAX  (PT 10/11)               OK

The spacebar problem was not present in the last version of the Juce Library I had (from August 2013).

 

PC (Windows 7): 

       VST   (Reaper/Cubase/Live)  OK
       AAX  (PT 10/11)                    OK
       RTAS (PT 10)                         Enter and escape keys not caught by the plugin.


For the RTAS problem, here is a fix I wrote in the RTASWrapper.cpp to send the key code to the focused component.

#if JUCE_WINDOWS

    Boolean HandleKeystroke(EventRecord *theEvent)
    {
        JUCE_NAMESPACE::Component* const modalComponent = JUCE_NAMESPACE::Component::getCurrentlyModalComponent();

        if (modalComponent != nullptr)
        {
            switch(theEvent->message)
            {
            case 9229:     // return key
            case 13315:    // numeric pad return key
                modalComponent->getCurrentlyFocusedComponent()->keyPressed(KeyPress(KeyPress::returnKey));
                break;
            case 13595: // escape key
                modalComponent->getCurrentlyFocusedComponent()->keyPressed(KeyPress(KeyPress::escapeKey));
                break;
            default:
                break;
            }

            return true;
        }
        else
            return false;
    };
#endif

 

What do you think of it?
Any idea about why space bars are not caught anymore on Reaper?

2

Thanks for the info. In your suggested Windows fix, where did you get the magic numbers from?

3

I simply did a printf of the 'theEvent->message' values as unsigned int to get these numbers.

There must be constants to use instead, but I didn't find them.

 

4

How about this?

   #if JUCE_WINDOWS
    Boolean HandleKeystroke (EventRecord* e) override
    {
        if (juce::Component* modalComp = juce::Component::getCurrentlyModalComponent())
        {
            if (juce::Component* focused = modalComp->getCurrentlyFocusedComponent())
            {
                switch (e->message & charCodeMask)
                {
                    case kReturnCharCode:
                    case kEnterCharCode:    focused->keyPressed (KeyPress (KeyPress::returnKey)); break;
                    case kEscapeCharCode:   focused->keyPressed (KeyPress (KeyPress::escapeKey)); break;
                    default: break;
                }
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
   #endif