key-names

Platform-aware keyboard key names for Rust applications. This crate is a fork of keyboard-keynames that adds a few extra features including winit integration.

Features:

• Generates user-friendly strings for modifier keys that respect platform conventions
• Generates user-friendly strings for keys based on scancode and current keyboard layout
• Supports Windows, Linux (X11 and Wayland), macOS, and web

This crate currently queries the keyboard layout only on Windows and Linux (X11 and Wayland). On macOS and web, there is instead a hard-coded table based on the US QWERTY layout. I would love a PR that adds support for querying the layout on either of these.

Run cargo run --example all_keys to see the key names produced by this library.

Modifier names and order

Contributing

Bugfix PRs welcome! Before investing time & effort into a new feature, it might be good to open an issue to discuss. I made this crate initially for the needs of Hyperspeedcube, and I'm open to adding more features if people would find it useful and it's possible to support cross-platform.

Also, if anyone knows how to set up Cargo.toml to force-enable the winit feature on web, please submit a PR!