Fixed bugs #882 and 865, re-opening bug #634 Ronald Lamprecht to SDL Hi, Sam Lantinga wrote: The problem with that fix is that it breaks IME events again. Maybe we can handle keyboard events differently to prevent this issue? Spending an hour reading MSDN, analysing SDL and another hour testing the reality on XP I am really wondering how patch r4990 could have ever worked in any situation. It's main effect is to break the unicode translation and causing spurious activation events! Why does TranslateMessage(&msg) nothing useful? Simply because it does not affect "msg" at all! All keyboard events are dispatched without the slightest change (see MSDN). TranslateMessage() just appends additional WM_CHAR, WM_DEADCHAR, WM_SYSCHAR, WM_SYSDEADCHAR event messages to the queue. But I could not find any SDL event handling routine that catches these events and transforms them to proper SDL keyevents while eliminating the corresponding WM_KEYDOWN, etc. events. Thus any IME input like the '@' generated by "Alt + 6(Numpad) + 4(Numpad)" is simply lost. But the situation is even worse! Up to r4990 the TranslateKey()/ToUnicode() calls did evaluate dead keys and did deliver proper key events for subsequent key strokes like '´' + 'e' resulting in 'é'. ToUnicode() needs proper key state informations to be able to handle these substitutions. But unfortunatly TranslateMessage() needs the same state information and eats it up while generating the WM_CHAR messages :-( Thus the current 1.2.14 breakes the partial IME support of previous releases, too. The key state race condition between ToUnicode() and TranslateMessage() requires to avoid any ToUnicode() usage for receiving proper WM_CHAR, etc. messages generated by TranslateMessage(). (Yes - the '@' and 'é' appear as WM_CHAR messages when unicode is switched off). The spurious SDL activation events are *not* caused by additional WM_ACTIVATE Windows messages! Besides DIB_HandleMessage() SDL_PrivateAppActive() is called by another source which I am not yet aware of - any hints? Thus I do strongly recommend the deletion of the TranslateMessage(&msg) call as a quick fix. A proper support of unicode and IME requires a clean SDL keyboard input concept first. Which SDL keyboards events should be transmitted to the app when the user presses '´' + 'e' ? Within the current unicode handling the first key stroke is hidden. Even though ToUnicode() delivers the proper key SDL does ignore it in TranslateKey(). Just the composed key event is transmitted to the app. That is what you expect for text input, but the app can no longer use keys like '^' as a key button because it will never receive a key event for it! With a given concept it seems to be necessary to regenerate SDL key events out of the WM_CHAR, etc. events and to drop all related direct WM_KEYDOWN, etc. events while the remaining basic WM_KEYDOWN, etc. events would still have to result in SDL key events. Anyway the source of the spurious WM_ACTIVATE should be located to avoid future trouble. Greets, Ronald

/*
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    Copyright (C) 1997-2009 Sam Lantinga

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*/

/** @file SDL_platform.h
 *  Try to get a standard set of platform defines
 */

#ifndef _SDL_platform_h
#define _SDL_platform_h

#if defined(_AIX)
#undef __AIX__
#define __AIX__		1
#endif
#if defined(__BEOS__)
#undef __BEOS__
#define __BEOS__	1
#endif
#if defined(__HAIKU__)
#undef __HAIKU__
#define __HAIKU__ 1
#endif
#if defined(bsdi) || defined(__bsdi) || defined(__bsdi__)
#undef __BSDI__
#define __BSDI__	1
#endif
#if defined(_arch_dreamcast)
#undef __DREAMCAST__
#define __DREAMCAST__	1
#endif
#if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__FreeBSD_kernel__) || defined(__DragonFly__)
#undef __FREEBSD__
#define __FREEBSD__	1
#endif
#if defined(__HAIKU__)
#undef __HAIKU__
#define __HAIKU__	1
#endif
#if defined(hpux) || defined(__hpux) || defined(__hpux__)
#undef __HPUX__
#define __HPUX__	1
#endif
#if defined(sgi) || defined(__sgi) || defined(__sgi__) || defined(_SGI_SOURCE)
#undef __IRIX__
#define __IRIX__	1
#endif
#if defined(linux) || defined(__linux) || defined(__linux__)
#undef __LINUX__
#define __LINUX__	1
#endif
#if defined(__APPLE__)
#undef __MACOSX__
#define __MACOSX__	1
#elif defined(macintosh)
#undef __MACOS__
#define __MACOS__	1
#endif
#if defined(__NetBSD__)
#undef __NETBSD__
#define __NETBSD__	1
#endif
#if defined(__OpenBSD__)
#undef __OPENBSD__
#define __OPENBSD__	1
#endif
#if defined(__OS2__)
#undef __OS2__
#define __OS2__		1
#endif
#if defined(osf) || defined(__osf) || defined(__osf__) || defined(_OSF_SOURCE)
#undef __OSF__
#define __OSF__		1
#endif
#if defined(__QNXNTO__)
#undef __QNXNTO__
#define __QNXNTO__	1
#endif
#if defined(riscos) || defined(__riscos) || defined(__riscos__)
#undef __RISCOS__
#define __RISCOS__	1
#endif
#if defined(__SVR4)
#undef __SOLARIS__
#define __SOLARIS__	1
#endif
#if defined(WIN32) || defined(_WIN32)
#undef __WIN32__
#define __WIN32__	1
#endif

#endif /* _SDL_platform_h */