Strange behavior of the CefBrowserHost::SendKeyEvent method

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Strange behavior of the CefBrowserHost::SendKeyEvent method

Postby senya » Mon Jul 06, 2020 1:11 pm

Strange behavior of the CefBrowserHost::SendKeyEvent method.

Hello.

After updating the cef framework from version 3865 to version 4103.
When a character input event is generated using the method CefBrowserHost::SendKeyEvent.
Instead of letters (a,b,c), numbers appear in the input field.

cefsimple, lubuntu linux 19 OS x64.

The code below displays '123123123' in the Google input field instead of the 'abcabcabc'.

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void SimpleHandler::OnLoadingStateChange(CefRefPtr<CefBrowser> browser,
                                         bool isLoading,
                                         bool canGoBack,
                                         bool canGoForward) {
    LOG(INFO) << "SimpleApp::OnLoadingStateChange";
    LOG(INFO) << isLoading;

    if (false == isLoading) {
        CefKeyEvent keyEvent;
        char16 chr = 'a';
        char16 chr2 = 'b';
        char16 chr3 = 'c';

        keyEvent.type = KEYEVENT_CHAR;
        keyEvent.modifiers = 0;
        keyEvent.unmodified_character = chr;
        keyEvent.is_system_key = false;
        keyEvent.focus_on_editable_field = true;
        CefRefPtr<CefBrowserHost> browserHost = browser->GetHost();

        for (int i = 0; i < 9; ++i) {
            if (0 == (i % 3)) {
                keyEvent.character = chr;
                int lKeyCode = static_cast<int>(keyEvent.character);
                keyEvent.windows_key_code = lKeyCode;
                keyEvent.native_key_code = lKeyCode;
            }
            else if (1 == (i % 3)) {
                keyEvent.character = chr2;
                int lKeyCode = static_cast<int>(keyEvent.character);
                keyEvent.windows_key_code = lKeyCode;
                keyEvent.native_key_code = lKeyCode;
            }
            else if (2 == (i % 3)) {
                keyEvent.character = chr3;
                int lKeyCode = static_cast<int>(keyEvent.character);
                keyEvent.windows_key_code = lKeyCode;
                keyEvent.native_key_code = lKeyCode;
            }
            browserHost->SendKeyEvent(keyEvent);
        }
    }
}
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Re: Strange behavior of the CefBrowserHost::SendKeyEvent met

Postby Czarek » Mon Jul 06, 2020 1:33 pm

You can hook up to key events using CefKeyboardHandler in a windowed application and compare events. Note that SendKeyEvent is for off-screen rendering, any other usage I guess is undefined.
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Re: Strange behavior of the CefBrowserHost::SendKeyEvent met

Postby salvadordf » Tue Jul 07, 2020 7:14 am

Just to give some more background information about this, we have a demo in the CEF4Delphi project that uses SendKeyEvent in a windowed browser with CEF 83.4.2.

I just tested this feature again in Windows 7 and it works correctly.
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Re: Strange behavior of the CefBrowserHost::SendKeyEvent met

Postby senya » Wed Jul 08, 2020 2:31 pm

Hook up with CefKeyboardHandler::OnPreKeyEvent and CefKeyboardHandler::OnKeyEvent shows that strange character code conversions are occurring.


Code fragment from cefsimple.

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void SimpleHandler::OnLoadingStateChange(CefRefPtr<CefBrowser> browser,
                                         bool isLoading,
                                         bool canGoBack,
                                         bool canGoForward) {
    if (false == isLoading) {
        LOG(INFO) << "SimpleApp::OnLoadingStateChange";

        CefKeyEvent keyEvent;
        char16 chr = 'a';
        char16 chr2 = 'b';
        char16 chr3 = 'z';

        keyEvent.type = KEYEVENT_CHAR;
        keyEvent.modifiers = 0;
        keyEvent.unmodified_character = chr;
        keyEvent.is_system_key = false;
        keyEvent.focus_on_editable_field = true;
        CefRefPtr<CefBrowserHost> browserHost = browser->GetHost();

        LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.type " << KEYEVENT_CHAR;
        LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.modifiers " << keyEvent.modifiers;
        LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.unmodified_character " << keyEvent.unmodified_character;
        LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.is_system_key " << keyEvent.is_system_key;
        LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.focus_on_editable_field " << keyEvent.focus_on_editable_field;

        for (int i = 0; i < 9; ++i) {
            if (0 == (i % 3)) {
                keyEvent.character = chr;
                int lKeyCode = static_cast<int>(keyEvent.character);
                keyEvent.windows_key_code = lKeyCode;
                keyEvent.native_key_code = lKeyCode;

                LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.character " << keyEvent.character;
                LOG(INFO) << "char(keyEvent.character) " << static_cast<char>(keyEvent.character);
                LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.windows_key_code " << keyEvent.windows_key_code;
                LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.native_key_code " << keyEvent.native_key_code;
            }
            else if (1 == (i % 3)) {
                keyEvent.character = chr2;
                int lKeyCode = static_cast<int>(keyEvent.character);
                keyEvent.windows_key_code = lKeyCode;
                keyEvent.native_key_code = lKeyCode;

                LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.character " << keyEvent.character;
                LOG(INFO) << "char(keyEvent.character) " << static_cast<char>(keyEvent.character);
                LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.windows_key_code " << keyEvent.windows_key_code;
                LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.native_key_code " << keyEvent.native_key_code;
            }
            else if (2 == (i % 3)) {
                keyEvent.character = chr3;
                int lKeyCode = static_cast<int>(keyEvent.character);
                keyEvent.windows_key_code = lKeyCode;
                keyEvent.native_key_code = lKeyCode;

                LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.character " << keyEvent.character;
                LOG(INFO) << "char(keyEvent.character) " << static_cast<char>(keyEvent.character);
                LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.windows_key_code " << keyEvent.windows_key_code;
                LOG(INFO) << "keyEvent.native_key_code " << keyEvent.native_key_code;
            }
            browserHost->SendKeyEvent(keyEvent);
        }
    }
}
//------------------

bool SimpleHandler::OnPreKeyEvent(CefRefPtr<CefBrowser> browser,
                                      const CefKeyEvent& event,
                                      CefEventHandle os_event,
                                      bool* is_keyboard_shortcut) {
    CEF_REQUIRE_UI_THREAD();
    LOG(INFO) << "SimpleHandler::OnPreKeyEvent";

    LOG(INFO) << "CefKeyEvent";
    LOG(INFO) << "type " << event.type;
    LOG(INFO) << "character " << event.character;
    LOG(INFO) << "char(character) " << static_cast<char>(event.character);
    LOG(INFO) << "modifiers " << event.modifiers;
    LOG(INFO) << "is_system_key " << event.is_system_key;
    LOG(INFO) << "native_key_code " << event.native_key_code;
    LOG(INFO) << "windows_key_code " << event.windows_key_code;
    LOG(INFO) << "unmodified_character " << event.unmodified_character;
    LOG(INFO) << "focus_on_editable_field " << event.focus_on_editable_field;

    bool result {false};
    return result;
}
//------------------

bool SimpleHandler::OnKeyEvent(CefRefPtr<CefBrowser> browser,
                                   const CefKeyEvent& event,
                                   CefEventHandle os_event) {
    CEF_REQUIRE_UI_THREAD();
    LOG(INFO) << "SimpleHandler::OnKeyEvent";

    LOG(INFO) << "CefKeyEvent";
    LOG(INFO) << "type " << event.type;
    LOG(INFO) << "character " << event.character;
    LOG(INFO) << "char(character) " << static_cast<char>(event.character);
    LOG(INFO) << "modifiers " << event.modifiers;
    LOG(INFO) << "is_system_key " << event.is_system_key;
    LOG(INFO) << "native_key_code " << event.native_key_code;
    LOG(INFO) << "windows_key_code " << event.windows_key_code;
    LOG(INFO) << "unmodified_character " << event.unmodified_character;
    LOG(INFO) << "focus_on_editable_field " << event.focus_on_editable_field;

    bool result {false};
    return result;
}
//------------------


The background is CEF 83.4.0+gfd6631b+chromium-83.0.4103.106, Lubuntu linux 19.10 x64, I don’t know what features of the system can affect anymore.

I think I’ll have to use javascript events generation for the keyboard.
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Re: Strange behavior of the CefBrowserHost::SendKeyEvent met

Postby senya » Fri Jul 17, 2020 10:05 am

Good day.
I decided to work around this strange problem by using the javascript property document.activeElement.value to fill in the selected text fields on the web page.

For example.

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CefString code {document.activeElement.value += "string1"};
browser->GetMainFrame()->ExecuteJavaScript(code,CefString(),0);
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Re: Strange behavior of the CefBrowserHost::SendKeyEvent met

Postby senya » Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:39 am

Used windowless (off-screen) rendering mode. Problem solved.
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