Alt keypresses on a mac

[crofty]

Hello 👋
I'm super interested to try this out. I'm on a mac and I don't seem to be able to use some of the functions - i think the default keymap doesn't work well on a mac.

For example. I'm trying to cycle the functions with next-candidate which should be invoked with ALT-n. However, if I press option-n it's getting interpreted as option ~ and so the next-candidate function bound to ALT-n isn't firing.

This is what is displayed at the bottom when I press Option n:

I don't know how to actually trigger an ALT-n on a mac. Whenever the Option key is pressed down the character that is bound to the n key changes. This can be seen with the onscreen keyboard viewer:

And so, if the option key is pressed, any press of n is going to be interpreted as a ~.

I can change the key_table.clj so that it looks for a ~ instead of a n, but I thought i'd raise the issue here in case there's another option.

[illiichi]

Thank you for your interest!

A code to interpret JavaFX event is at view/controller/keyboard_input.clj.
I think code field of javafx.scene.input.KeyEvent should be used. But the value is UNDEFINED on my environment, which is on linux.

Class: javafx.scene.input.KeyEvent
Value: "#object[javafx.scene.input.KeyEvent 0x7e626301 \"KeyEvent [source = javafx.scene.Scene@13a2bbd8, target = javafx.scene.Scene@13a2bbd8, eventType = ...
---
Fields:
  "altDown" = true
  "character" = "n"
  "code" = UNDEFINED
  "consumed" = false
  "controlDown" = false
  "eventType" = KEY_TYPED
  "metaDown" = false
  "shiftDown" = false
  "source" = javafx.scene.Scene@13a2bbd8
  "target" = javafx.scene.Scene@13a2bbd8
  "text" = ""

It should be fixed to get key code correctly.