New global inputs in SFML 2

[henrikno]

It is just this issue which is more complicated to achieve, in general the new input system is much cleaner.

The most common case got a lot more complicated to make it "cleaner"?
I can't see any common use case where I would want to get the keyboard state while the window is unfocused. (except for a keylogger).

Keeping track of the window focus seems like the easiest way of doing the common case. Perhaps providing a window.HasFocus() method would make it simple again.

[Laurent]

Keeping track of the window focus seems like the easiest way of doing the common case. Perhaps providing a window.HasFocus() method would make it simple again.

Indeed.

[Nexus]

You could also handle it similiarly to sf::Mouse, while reflecting about non-malicious use cases of the first overload

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class Keyboard
{
    public:
        static bool IsKeyPressed(Key key);
        static bool IsKeyPressed(Key key, const sf::Window& window);
    ...
};

[Hiura]

Sometimes you may be maybe switching between two or more windows so using the second version would be a pain in the neck if you want to share the keyboard state among the different windows. This is uncommon but still.