keyPress only working in Firefox

[lphuberdeau]

For some tests, I want to validate that the return keypress behaves correctly.

$field->keyPress(13)

The operation works in Firefox, but fails in every other browser I have tested with (Chrome, IE7, IE8, IE9).

[aik099]

@lphuberdeau , is this still an issue?

[lphuberdeau]

I may be several weeks behind the latest updates to Mink and all (but Selenium is up to date). This is still an issue.

[aik099]

Does other key* methods, like keydown and keyup fail with same 13 char code? From the code it seems pure responsibility of underlying Syn library (http://bitovi.com/blog/2010/07/syn-a-standalone-synthetic-event-library.html), which is supposed to be cross-browser.

I guess we need to investigate that or consider using native event triggering code in WebDriver itself.

[lphuberdeau]

tested with keydown, keypress and keyup, including all of them in sequence. No luck.

[aik099]

Can you please add test case, that would:

1. open a page in Chrome
2. send ENTER key
3. check (e.g. via js callback) that ENTER key was received properly
4. add assertion that would check ENTER keypress result

I know that test would fail now, but once we figure out what's wrong we'll see instantly that it passes.

About the fix I see several options:

1. it's a bug in Syn library that triggers the event and upgrading a library might solve a problem
2. use native Selenium event triggering code, but ensure that JS event is fired where it should

In any case I would expect valid PR from you with a test and a fix.