Re: [AD] Problem with key_shifts on Windows.

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i know its a bit annoying, but can you modify /examples/exkeys.c to GFX_AUTODETECT_WINDOWED and try the tests again, also GFX_AUTODETECT (fullscreen) and do the tests again..
see if there are differences,  please list all the following:

- OS
- allegro version
- fullscreen or windowed and the driver (as listed on the top of exkeys when you run it) - keyb driver.. in device manager, under Keyboards.. mine says "Standard 101/102-Key or MS Natural PS/2 Keyb" - in accessability options (control panel), keyb tab.. are any of those ticked ?


control-esc and alt-esc are trapped by win32, i dont know you can do much about that.



Andrei Ellman wrote:
aj wrote:
> can these problems be demonstrated/or not in the /examples/exkeys.exe ?
I just tried exkeys.exe (only under Windows 2000) and at first, the 
problem does not appear. However, on closer inspection of the code, 
the bit where it tests the key_shifts variable is immediately preceded 
by a  ureadkey(NULL); I tried adding readkey(NULL) to my example 
program, and although it now stops and waits for a regular key 
(letter, number, etc) to be pressed before reading key_shifts, when I 
press a regular key, the key_shifts variable is updated with the 
correct state of the shift-keys. From this, I conclude that the 
windows version only updates key_shifts when a regular key is pressed, 
but the DOS version keeps key_shifts in sync with the state of the 
keyboard. If exkeys.exe had a portion where it just displayed the 
key_shifts variable without waiting for readkey(), then the problem 
will be demonstrated.
A manifestation of the problem where ESC does not work when the 
CTRL/ALT keys are 'stuck' in exkeys.exe is where I cannot press ESC to 
continue unless I press some other key first.
Also, in exkeys, when I press ALT-GR, in the table of keys on the 
right of the screen, it says I've pressed both ALT-GR and CTRL when 
I've not pressed CTRL. If CTRL is held down, the values for both 
ALT-GR and CTRL are correct. However, if I hold down RCONTROL when I'm 
holding down ALT-GR, then the indicator for CTRL becomes un-set, 
although if I'm holding down all 3 keys at once, the indicators are at 
their correct values. None of this happens with the regular ALT key.
I have a UK keyboard. According to the Windows Input-locales section 
of the regional options applet, the input-language is "English (United 
Kingdom)", and the Keyboard layout / IME is "United Kingdom".
BTW. I added the following lines inside the main loop of my test program

    if(keyboard_needs_poll())
    {
        poll_keyboard();
    }

and the results are still the same - even if I get rid of the if and just call poll_keyboard()

AE.



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