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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 04:42:23 +0200
From: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Subject: SDL/OSX: Joystick; Better key handling
I just finished implementing improved keyhandling for OS X (in fact
the code should be easily ported to the "normal" MacOS part of SDL, I
just had no chance yet). Works like this:
First init the mapping table statically like before. Them, it queries
the OS for the "official" key table, then iterates over all 127
scancode and gets the associates ascii code. It ignores everythng
below 32 (has to, as it would lead to many problems if we did not...
e.g. both ESC and NUM LOCk produce an ascii code 27 on my keyboard),
and all stuff above 127 is mapped to SDLK_WORLD_* simply in the order
it is encountered.
In addition, caps lock is now working, too.
The code work flawless for me, but since I only have one keyboard, I
may have not encountered some serious problem... but I am pretty
confident that it is better than the old code in most cases.
The joystick driver works fine for me, too. I think it can be added
to CVS already. It would simply be helpful if more people would test
it. Hm, I wonder if Maelstrom or GLTron has Joystick support? That
would be a wonderful test application :)
I also took the liberty of modifying some text files like BUGS,
README.CVS, README.MacOSX (which now contains the OS X docs I long
promised)
author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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date | Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:00:18 +0000 |
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBook HTML 1.0//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Introduction</TITLE > </HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ee" VLINK="#551a8b" ALINK="#ff0000" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" > <HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="PREFACE" ><H1 ><A NAME="AEN8" >Introduction</A ></H1 ><P >This library is designed to make it easy to write games that run on Linux, Win32 and BeOS using the various native high-performance media interfaces, (for video, audio, etc) and presenting a single source-code level API to your application. This is a fairly low level API, but using this, completely portable applications can be written with a great deal of flexibility.</P ><P >The library is loaded as a dynamically linked library on its native platform, and is currently compiled natively for Linux, compiled for Win32 using a Linux hosted GCC <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/Xmingw32/" TARGET="_top" >cross-compilation</A > environment, and compiled using the EGCS C++ compiler under BeOS.</P ><P >An introduction to SDL can be found online at: <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/intro/toc.html" TARGET="_top" >http://www.libsdl.org/intro/</A > </P ><P >There are code examples on each of the main library pages, and there are fully fleshed example C++ classes and programs in the examples archive, available on the <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/download.html" TARGET="_top" >SDL download page</A >.</P ><P >For an introduction to basic multi-media programming concepts, you might try some of the following links: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://www.ziron.com/links/" TARGET="_top" >Game Programming Links</A ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://developer.dungeon-crawl.com/" TARGET="_top" >Game Developer Search Engine</A ></P ></LI ></UL ></P ><P >Enjoy!</P ><P > Sam Lantinga <TT CLASS="EMAIL" ><<A HREF="mailto:slouken@libsdl.org" ><A HREF="mailto:slouken@libsdl.org" TARGET="_top" >slouken@libsdl.org</A ></A >></TT ></P > <P> <br><br><HR> <H1>Table of Contents</H1> <UL> <LI><A HREF="html/index.html">Full Table of Contents</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/guide.html">The SDL Guide</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/reference.html">The SDL Reference</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="html/general.html">Initialization</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/video.html">Video</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/wm.html">Window Manager</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/event.html">Event Handling</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/joystick.html">Joystick</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/audio.html">Audio</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/cdrom.html">CDROM</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/thread.html">Threads</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/time.html">Timers</A></LI> </UL> </UL> </DIV ></BODY ></HTML >