Re: [AD] XIM patch for Allegro 4.1.x

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Elias Pschernig wrote:

> Yes, I see now: "(shift changes case, ctrl+letter gives the position of
> that letter in the alphabet, eg. ctrl+A = 1, ctrl+B = 2, etc). Pressing
> alt+key returns only the scancode, with a zero ASCII code in the low
> byte."
>
> I'll have to add special handlers for Alt and Ctrl I guess. Does anyone
> know if the Mac OSX code does conform to this?

It looks so and I'm sure it would have been brought up by now if it didn't.

> And why isn't this done
> in keyboard.c, if it is driver independent? Same as not putting keys
> like KEY_SHIFT into the buffer - that should belong into keyboard.c, not
> the driver. I'll see if I can improve this, instead of just hacking it
> into the x11 driver.
>  

*Maybe*, but I don't think you want keyboard.c to become too high level, 
getting in the way of other drivers.

Peter