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

.TH "SDL_InitSubSystem" "3" "Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:00" "SDL" "SDL API Reference" 
.SH "NAME"
SDL_InitSubSystem\- Initialize subsystems
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.PP
\fB#include "SDL\&.h"
.sp
\fBint \fBSDL_InitSubSystem\fP\fR(\fBUint32 flags\fR);
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
After SDL has been initialized with \fI\fBSDL_Init\fP\fR you may initialize uninitialized subsystems with \fBSDL_InitSubSystem\fP\&. The \fBflags\fR parameter is the same as that used in \fI\fBSDL_Init\fP\fR\&.
.SH "EXAMPLES"
.PP
.nf
\f(CW/* Seperating Joystick and Video initialization\&. */
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
\&.
\&.
SDL_SetVideoMode(640, 480, 16, SDL_DOUBLEBUF|SDL_FULLSCREEN);
\&.
/* Do Some Video stuff */
\&.
\&.
/* Initialize the joystick subsystem */
SDL_InitSubSystem(SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK);

/* Do some stuff with video and joystick */
\&.
\&.
\&.
/* Shut them both down */
SDL_Quit();\fR
.fi
.PP
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
.PP
Returns \fB-1\fR on an error or \fB0\fR on success\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fI\fBSDL_Init\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_Quit\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_QuitSubSystem\fP\fR
...\" created by instant / docbook-to-man, Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:00