KeyCodes

A few words on keycodes

When you want to handle the KeyDown event, you get passed a wxKeyEvent event as a parameter. event.GetKeyCode() will then return you the KeyCode of the pressed key. This page aims to upgrade the documentation for wxWidgets 2.4.2. The documentation in 2.6.3 is more complete.

A few oddities

The way it works seems a little strange sometimes (at least on Windows XP). For example :

• right control and left control cannot be differentiated,
• the keycode of non special keys is an ascii code, which means it will depend on the keyboard layout you are using,
• "print screen" will not generate an event on my system,
• the right alt key will send me two events instead of only one ( WXK_CONTROL and WXK_ALT ).

The french keyboard layout

As I am using a french layout, here are the values I get. Keep in mind it will be different from a US keyboard layout (or any other layout). I have listed the keys from left to right and from up to down :

• NK_ESC 27
• NK_F1 342
• NK_F2 343
• NK_F3 344
• NK_F4 345
• NK_F5 346
• NK_F6 347
• NK_F7 348
• NK_F8 349
• NK_F9 350
• NK_F10 351
• NK_F11 352
• NK_F12 353
• NK_SYSREQ
• NK_SCRLOCK 367
• NK_PAUSE 310
• NK_GRAVE 39
• NK_1 49
• NK_2 50
• NK_3 51
• NK_4 52
• NK_5 53
• NK_6 54
• NK_7 55
• NK_8 56
• NK_9 57
• NK_0 48
• NK_MINUS 91
• NK_EQUAL 43
• NK_BACKSPACE 8
• NK_INSERT 324
• NK_HOME 315
• NK_PAGEUP 312
• NK_PAD_LOCK 366
• NK_PAD_SLASH 396
• NK_PAD_ASTERIS 391
• NK_PAD_MINUS 394
• NK_TAB 9
• NK_Q 81
• NK_W 87
• NK_E 69
• NK_R 82
• NK_T 84
• NK_Y 89
• NK_U 85
• NK_I 73
• NK_O 79
• NK_P 80
• NK_LBRACKET 93
• NK_RBRACKET 59
• NK_ENTER 13
• NK_DELETE 127
• NK_END 314
• NK_PAGEDOWN 313
• NK_PAD_7 315
• NK_PAD_8 317
• NK_PAD_9 312
• NK_PAD_PLUS 392
• NK_CAPSLOCK 311
• NK_A 65
• NK_S 83
• NK_D 68
• NK_F 70
• NK_G 71
• NK_H 72
• NK_J 74
• NK_K 75
• NK_L 76
• NK_SEMICOLON 44
• NK_APOSTROPHE 126
• NK_NUMBERSIGN 92
• NK_PAD_4 316
• NK_PAD_5 305
• NK_PAD_6 318
• NK_LSHIFT 306
• NK_BACKSLASH 226
• NK_Z 90
• NK_X 88
• NK_C 67
• NK_V 86
• NK_B 66
• NK_N 78
• NK_M 77
• NK_COMMA 46
• NK_PERIOD 47
• NK_SLASH 223
• NK_RSHIFT 306
• NK_UP 317
• NK_PAD_1 314
• NK_PAD_2 319
• NK_PAD_3 313
• NK_PAD_ENTER 13
• NK_LCTRL 308
• NK_LALT 309
• NK_SPACE 32
• NK_RALT 308+309
• NK_RCTRL 308
• NK_LEFT 316
• NK_DOWN 319
• NK_RIGHT 318
• NK_PAD_0 324
• NK_PAD_PERIOD 127
• NK_LMETA 91
• NK_RMETA 92
• NK_MENU 93