Re: [AD] key scan codes have changed?

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > You did read the documentation there right? Where did it ever say you 
could 
> > test directly against the returned integer?  In all cases, it says to 
pull the
> > words apart and then test.
> 
> 
> how is pulling a word apart any diffrent from testing it whole ?

It's not the pulling it apart that does it, it's comparing against the 
KEY_* constants versus a hard-coded integer.

> so if i want to test all the possible keys, i would have to write out 
> each KEY_*
> 
> if ((val >> 8) == KEY_SPACE)  myCode(' ');
> if ((val >> 8) == KEY_A)      myCode('a');
> ..etc..
> 
> 
> ???
> is that the recommended way to do it ?

Almost. The recommended way to do what you post there would be to use 
scancode_to_ascii() or scancode_to_name() (yes, that is a polite way of 
saying RTFM ;)).
Any of Allegro's examples using those functions, by the way?

Evert