Re: Re: Design Issues (list_item, mod_key state)

On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 08:50, Marc Str=C3=A4mke wrote:
> Darren Vincent Hart wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 06:20, Marc Str=C3=A4mke wrote:
> >=20
> >>You have one big problem with the modifier keys imo, because there can=20
> >>be multiple keyboards or none, so selecting which one is "active" or=20
> >>used seems troublesome to me, have to think a bit more on this though ;=
)
> >=20
> >=20
> > The multiple keyboard issue is similar to the multiple screen issue we
> > discussed before, and IMO, we should concern ourselves with it for this
> > release.  As in X, if you hold Shift down on one keyboard and press 'a'
> > on another, you get an 'A'.  At least I believe that to be the case,
> > someone correct me if I am in error.
> Never used a multiple keyboard configuration with X, but atm our event=20
> providers are all equal, to you want to iterate trough all of them and=20
> or their mod flags together?(seems to be the only solution)
>=20

Well (currently) the only keyboard support we have is from SDL and it
should handle all that iterating.  When I get around to writing the
linux_event system however that will be an issue.  I'll have to give
that some more thought.

Darren

>=20
>=20
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