Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:02:33 -0700 From: Sam Lantinga Subject: SDL 1.3 keyboard plan After lots of discussion with Christian, this is what we came up with: > So, to sum up... > SDLK_* become the physical keys, starting at > (1<<21) > We create a macro SDLK_INDEX(X) > We have two functions SDL_GetLayoutKey(SDLKey) and SDL_GetKeyName() > SDL_GetLayoutKey maps to UCS4 for printable characters, and SDLK* for non-printable characters > and does so based on the OS's current keyboard layout > SDL_GetKeyName() handles both SDLK_* and UCS4, converting UCS4 to UTF-8 and converting SDLK_* into our names, which are UTF-8 for printable characters. > WASD folks use SDLK_*, and 'I' folks use SDL_GetLayoutKey(SDLK_*) Here is the patch he came up with, and his e-mail about it: Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:50:28 +0200 From: Christian Walther Subject: Re: SDL 1.3 keyboard plan > Sounds great, go ahead and send me a patch. Here goes! Thanks for having a look. Don't hesitate to comment if anything does not conform to your ideas. One caveat: Committing this now may break compilability of some video drivers - specifically, if they use any of the SDLK_* codes that were obsoleted and moved into SDL_compat.h. I only tried Cocoa (which did break, but is already fixed) and X11 (which didn't, but then its key handling is #iffed out). If that's a problem, it may need to go into a branch. -Christian

# Makefile to build the SDL library

INCLUDE = -I./include
CFLAGS  = -g -O2 $(INCLUDE)
AR	= ar
RANLIB	= ranlib

CONFIG_H = include/SDL_config.h
TARGET  = libSDL.a
SOURCES = \
	src/*.c \
	src/audio/*.c \
	src/cdrom/*.c \
	src/cpuinfo/*.c \
	src/events/*.c \
	src/file/*.c \
	src/joystick/*.c \
	src/stdlib/*.c \
	src/thread/*.c \
	src/timer/*.c \
	src/video/*.c \
	src/audio/dummy/*.c \
	src/video/dummy/*.c \
	src/joystick/dummy/*.c \
	src/cdrom/dummy/*.c \
	src/thread/generic/*.c \
	src/timer/dummy/*.c \
	src/loadso/dummy/*.c \

OBJECTS = $(shell echo $(SOURCES) | sed -e 's,\.c,\.o,g')

all: $(TARGET)

$(TARGET): $(CONFIG_H) $(OBJECTS)
	$(AR) crv $@ $^
	$(RANLIB) $@

$(CONFIG_H):
	cp $(CONFIG_H).default $(CONFIG_H)

clean:
	rm -f $(TARGET) $(OBJECTS)