Keyboard Layout on pavlovia.org incorrect detection

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OS (e.g. Win10): Win10
PsychoPy version (e.g. 1.84.x): v2022.2.3
Standard Standalone? (y/n) If not then what?: y
What are you trying to achieve?:
Hi to all of you :wave:,
Currently, I am learning how to use the Builder. I just created a simple memory experiment where participants study certain words and after that are presented either those “old” words or new ones. For each word they need to press ‘y’ (yes) when the word is old, otherwise ‘n’ for no. When I run it locally the experiment detects that I am using a German keyboard (QWERTZ-layout). However, when I am piloting the experiment on pavlovia the experiment assumes a QWERTY layout, therefore I have to press ‘z’ on my German keyboard, to actually get a ‘y’ response. Is there any possibility or a piece of code so that the experiment can detect the keyboard layout used, because I expect participants using QWERTZ or QWERTY keyboard layouts.

A workaround would be to also allow the ‘z’ key as response and check in a code component, whether ‘z’ was detected as pressed key and change it to ‘y’. However, I don’t know which side effect this may have especially for other keyboard layouts beside the ones discussed.

Any help is very appreciated :slight_smile:
Thanks
Chris

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Hi @Chris2358, this seems to be a known issue with no straight-forward sollution: Keyboard coding/layout not recognized - #6 by thomas_pronk

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Hi @ajus,
thanks for providing a link to that topic. As far as I understood it, there isn’t anything easy I can do, besides using the getLayoutMap (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Keyboard/getLayoutMap). That would imply that just Chrome & Edge would work, which isn’t a desirable solution.

Based on that I plan on implementing the workaround I already described, see if it works and hope that it won’t have any unknown side-effects.

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