Re: [sdljava-users] guichan sdlinput - most key not handled

[Ivan Z. G. <iva...@ya...>]

Hi David,

Welcome to open source ;-)

I think you have to actually enable unicode by calling
SDLEvent.enableUNICODE(1) -- I wonder if that fixes the problem?

The question remains if we should assume unicode or what the best thing
to do here is.  We can actually query if UNICODE is enabled so maybe do
something based on if it is or isn't set.

Rainer wrote the wonderfull guichan port.  Any thoughts what the best
thing to do here is Rainer?

-Ivan/

David Lareau wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've tried to use a guichan TextField but found that most of the key
> input aren't handled. The special cases like the arrows or the delete
> key work fine, but the common letters and numbers aren't recognized as
> input. The Key event generated by the keypressed has a keyvalue of 0.
>
> I believe the problem is in the sdljavax.guichan.sdl.SDLInput
> convertKeyCharacter method. The first block seems to handle those
> numbers and letters but really doesn't.
>
> private Key convertKeyCharacter(SDLKeyboardEvent keysym) {
> int value = 0;
>
> if (keysym.getUnicode() < 255) {
>  value = keysym.getUnicode();
> }
>
> switch (keysym.getSym()) {
>  case SDLKey.SDLK_TAB :
>  value = Key.TAB;
>  break;
>
>  ...
>
> }
>
> ...
>
> }
>
>
> I've added the following in the switch statement, and it fixes the
> problem:
> case SDLKey.SDLK_a:
>  value = (int)'a';
>  break;
> ... for each letter and number
>
>
> I'm not sure if that's the best solution. Perhaps someone might know
> why the getUnicode() method returns 0. I'm using Windows XP by the
> way, I don't know if it matters.
>
> Anyhow, yay my first somewhat-contribution to an open source project!
>
> Cheers,
> David Lareau
>
>
>
>
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