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General => Feature requests => Topic started by: Lord Delvin on October 10, 2007, 01:25:56 pm

Title: sf::Key::Code::lastKey
Post by: Lord Delvin on October 10, 2007, 01:25:56 pm

For passing arrays with all currently pressed keys, it would be nice to have an official sf::Key::Code::lastKey, as Count is marked as internal. (I need this to make inputbridges, which swap/move/overwrite several keys, to make splitscreen programming easier)

Maybe it's enough to label Count as external and announce that.

Title: sf::Key::Code::lastKey
Post by: Laurent on October 10, 2007, 02:34:39 pm

Hum, ok, I can do this of course ;)

Title: sf::Key::Code::lastKey
Post by: Lord Delvin on October 13, 2007, 12:06:39 pm

Am I just blind or is the Print key missing?
I dont quite understand how you decided to take this keyboard enumerators and not others...maybe it's related to the freaking keyboardmapping of french keyboards:)
When I went there some years ago and tried to write a mail I ended up with a lot of random unreadable crap...but, what would be interesting is, if I want o access the 'ä' key, as I'm in germany, and you want to access some ' or what ever you got instead there, how can I do this?
Is it safe to test the keycode as integer from the event(if it's fired, didnt test it yet) or is it atm impossible to use these special keys?
greatings, good job anyway:)

Title: sf::Key::Code::lastKey
Post by: Laurent on October 13, 2007, 01:10:40 pm

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Am I just blind or is the Print key missing?

No, it's really missing. If I remember correctly, I didn't add it because I couldn't find it in the X11 (Linux) API.

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I dont quite understand how you decided to take this keyboard enumerators and not others...maybe it's related to the freaking keyboardmapping of french keyboards:)

Probably :D
If it's really freaking, I'm opened to any suggestion to make it more english-friendly.

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When I went there some years ago and tried to write a mail I ended up with a lot of random unreadable crap...but, what would be interesting is, if I want o access the 'ä' key, as I'm in germany, and you want to access some ' or what ever you got instead there, how can I do this?
Is it safe to test the keycode as integer from the event(if it's fired, didnt test it yet) or is it atm impossible to use these special keys?

For more specific characters, you should use the TextEntered event, which uses unicode and is able to report you any character entered, even those î or ä resulting from a combination of several keys.

Title: sf::Key::Code::lastKey
Post by: Lord Delvin on October 13, 2007, 01:29:22 pm

Quote from: "Laurent"

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Am I just blind or is the Print key missing?

No, it's really missing. If I remember correctly, I didn't add it because I couldn't find it in the X11 (Linux) API.

Maybe I'll do a search on this and report on success:)

Title: sf::Key::Code::lastKey
Post by: Lord Delvin on October 13, 2007, 02:33:59 pm

I dont know, how it works for your Mac or Win implementations, but at least for windows it should be easy. For Linux you have to add to WindowImplX11.cpp after line 900:

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case XK_Print :       return Key::Print;


And of course you have to add Key::Print and Windows/Mac implementation.

have fun:)

Title: sf::Key::Code::lastKey
Post by: Laurent on October 13, 2007, 05:37:13 pm

I think I already tried XK_Print, and it was not reacting to my Print key.
But anyway, I'll be able to do more tests when I have my computer.