Re: [AD] new_api_branch news

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Evert Glebbeek wrote:

> I was meaning to ask about that: were keyboards supposed to plug into the 
> graphic subsystem in the sense that a keyboard object is associated with a 
> particular window? Or do we just grab all keypresses and store the ID of 
> the window the input comes from?
>  

The latter.  In AL_KBDSTATE there is a field called `display' which will 
tell you which window was focused at the time you called 
al_get_keyboard_state().  Similarly there is a `display' field in 
AL_KEYBORD_EVENT if you are using events.

> About the graphics subsystem: I'm going to stick mostly with Bob's last 
> proposal. I am keeping AL_DISPLAY as something different than a BITMAP 
> though, as I think it makes sense to do that.
>  
Great!

Peter