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

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#include "common.h"

static CommonState *state;

/* Call this instead of exit(), so we can clean up SDL: atexit() is evil. */
static void
quit(int rc)
{
    CommonQuit(state);
    exit(rc);
}

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    int i, done;
    SDL_Event event;

    /* Initialize test framework */
    state = CommonCreateState(argv, SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
    if (!state) {
        return 1;
    }
    state->skip_renderer = SDL_TRUE;
    for (i = 1; i < argc;) {
        int consumed;

        consumed = CommonArg(state, i);
        if (consumed == 0) {
            consumed = -1;
        }
        if (consumed < 0) {
            fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s %s\n", argv[0], CommonUsage(state));
            quit(1);
        }
        i += consumed;
    }
    if (!CommonInit(state)) {
        quit(2);
    }

    /* Main render loop */
    done = 0;
    while (!done) {
        /* Check for events */
        while (SDL_PollEvent(&event)) {
            CommonEvent(state, &event, &done);
        }
    }
    quit(0);
}

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