Re: [AD] Allegro 4.2 planning

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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




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