I’m using the sample 3-10 program located here:
I’m writing a program on top of X Windows and I’m not getting any key
press events apart from the CTRL-C.
If there’s any ideas why there SDL_PollEvent doesn’t return any key
press events, I’d love to hear them!
Thank you!
Does your window have the focus? If not, it won’t get any events at
all. Perhaps the shell still has focus.
Try grabbing the input:
SDL_WM_GrabInput(SDL_GRAB_ON);
in which case you should get everything. Make sure you have a way to
exit the program cleanly 
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Nohara said:> I’m using the sample 3-10 program located here:
I’m writing a program on top of X Windows and I’m not getting any key
press events apart from the CTRL-C.If there’s any ideas why there SDL_PollEvent doesn’t return any key
press events, I’d love to hear them!
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William Brodie-Tyrrell
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I’m writing a program on top of X Windows and I’m not getting any key
press events apart from the CTRL-C.
SDL catches SIGINT (which is sent when you hit ctrl-c in the terminal
where you launched the program) and sends an SDL_QUIT event in response
to it, to give apps a convenient way to clean up…it makes a
standardish Unix quit request look like they clicked the window
manager’s close button.
So I guess I’m asking: are you sure the SDL window has the focus?
Also, if you’re using Example 3-10, there’s no SDL_Init() or
SDL_SetVideoMode() call there…you won’t get keyboard events unless
there’s a window to get events (which would also explain the ctrl-c
thing)…use the later example code in that article.
–ryan.
What does your code look like?On 10/31/06, Taylor Chris Nohara wrote:
I’m using the sample 3-10 program located here:
I’m writing a program on top of X Windows and I’m not getting any key
press events apart from the CTRL-C.If there’s any ideas why there SDL_PollEvent doesn’t return any key
press events, I’d love to hear them!
–
E-Mail: Chris Nystrom <@Chris_Nystrom>
http://www.newio.org/
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