Pressing the CTRL and any other key prevents .keydown() and .keyup() from capturing events.

Reported by:	Robert@ThinkTankDesign.ca	Owned by:	Robert@ThinkTankDesign.ca
Priority:	low	Milestone:	None
Component:	event	Version:	1.6.3
Keywords:		Cc:
Blocked by:		Blocking:

Description

I've been working on a library for my game engine Red Locomotive to allow game developers to bind to the hole keyboard. I've been successful, but have noticed a problem with jQuery.

If i press and hold the CTRL key, then any other key, the keydown function stops capturing keydown events. Then when I release the CTRL key the keyup event for the CTRL key never fires.

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Changed September 10, 2011 07:16PM UTC by timmywil comment:1

component:	unfiled → event
owner:	→ Robert@ThinkTankDesign.ca
priority:	undecided → low
status:	new → pending

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Changed September 10, 2011 07:21PM UTC by anonymous comment:2

Here is a jsFiddle that can be used to reproduce the bug: http://jsfiddle.net/M93tR/1/

Changed September 10, 2011 08:51PM UTC by dmethvin comment:3

I do see that behavior with key combos that correspond to some browser hotkeys, for example ctrl-n, but not with ctrl-a for example. If the behavior you see is consistent with this description, then it's not something jQuery would be able to fix since the browser is not delivering key data we can detect: http://unixpapa.com/js/key.html

If you write this in pure DOM does the problem persist?

Changed September 25, 2011 07:48AM UTC by trac-o-bot comment:4

resolution:	→ invalid
status:	pending → closed

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