I’m trying to use an application on a Macbook Pro with a British keyboard, that has been written with SDL. That laptop has no direct key for the Hash (#) character, and I normally need to press ALT-3 to get that character. But it appears SDL is trapping the ALT key, so preventing me using that character - unless I cut-and-paste it from another Mac application.
Has this been noticed before, and is there a work-around please?
Thank youIs this happening for an SDL_TEXTINPUT event?
Jonny DOn Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Peter Vince <peter_vince at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I’m trying to use an application on a Macbook Pro with a British keyboard,
that has been written with SDL. That laptop has no direct key for the Hash
(#) character, and I normally need to press ALT-3 to get that character.
But it appears SDL is trapping the ALT key, so preventing me using that
character - unless I cut-and-paste it from another Mac application.Has this been noticed before, and is there a work-around please?
Thank you
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Hi Jonny. Thanks for your reply. Short answer - yes.
Peter
Jonny D wrote:> Is this happening for an SDL_TEXTINPUT event?
Jonny D
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Peter Vince <@Peter_Vince (@Peter_Vince)> wrote:
I'm trying to use an application on a Macbook Pro with a British keyboard, that has been written with SDL. That laptop has no direct key for the Hash (#) character, and I normally need to press ALT-3 to get that character. But it appears SDL is trapping the ALT key, so preventing me using that character - unless I cut-and-paste it from another Mac application.Has this been noticed before, and is there a work-around please?
Thank you
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Hi Jonny,
Yes - this is the code segment being used:
case SDL_TEXTINPUT:
i = 0;
while (ev.text.text[i] != '\0')
putkey(ev.text.text[i++]) ;
break ;
Regards,
Peter
Jonny D wrote:> Is this happening for an SDL_TEXTINPUT event?
Jonny D
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Peter Vince <@Peter_Vince (@Peter_Vince)> wrote:
I'm trying to use an application on a Macbook Pro with a British keyboard, that has been written with SDL. That laptop has no direct key for the Hash (#) character, and I normally need to press ALT-3 to get that character. But it appears SDL is trapping the ALT key, so preventing me using that character - unless I cut-and-paste it from another Mac application.Has this been noticed before, and is there a work-around please?
Thank you
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