Anuken/Arc

[Feture Request] Use Keysym instead of Keycode. (Exotic Keyboard Layouts).

gegoxaren opened this issue · 1 comments

gegoxaren commented

In SDL2 there is a field in the struct SDL_Keysym called sym, this field corresponds to the platform specific input of the keyboard, and is platform independent as the hard work is done in other part of the code.

http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/78754c9488f6/include/SDL_keyboard.h#l47
http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/78754c9488f6/include/SDL_keycode.h

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_Keysym
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_Keycode

This would solve Anuken/Mindustry#1151

It would also solve other more exotic keyboard layouts like mine (Svorak).

Please have this in consideration. Thank you.

Anuken commented

Key symbols were used in an older version, and caused significant problems. I don't see how switching to symbols will solve any issues with keyboard layout.