Re: [AD] Allegro 4.2 planning

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Elias Pschernig wrote:

> (And I'm not sure how SDL behaves in
> Windows, it might actually be like SDL there, since someone said
> DirectX only reports scancodes. I somehow doubt it though.)
>  

i.e. DirectX behaves as DOS Allegro does: it gives you [pretty much] 
exactly the scancodes generated by the keyboard hardware.  To actually 
get the character generated by a key, you have to go through the normal 
Win32 API (which is actually quite inefficient to do).

Peter