Key events handling

[Zardoz89]

For what I researched, SFML can't handle some key events, like ! " | @ (Alt gr+number or Shift + number). It isn't a bug, they simple ignored these cases and return a "Unknow key" (-1) value. I send a Issue but looks that is pretty old (first issue two years ago!).

I think that We have this options.

• Add these codes in SFML code and send a pull request (I can try to do for Windows & Linux, but Mac code it's very different)
• Bypass SFML and use native code (Similar problem for Mac)
• Switch to SDL 2 that have a more logical way to handle key events and can grab key codes and scan codes at same time.

What do you think that should try ?

[lamogui]

• Add these codes in SFML code and send a pull request (I can try to do for Windows & Linux, but Mac code it's very different) I can do it for windows i know well how it works it's not difficult
• Bypass SFML and use native code (Similar problem for Mac) Lot of works, SFML/SDL already did. that's not the easy way
• Switch to SDL 2 Ok but we need remove sf::dependancy from DCPU/Hardware before

[lamogui]

May be these key are send on "text enter event" another solution is use these event only for theses special cases and send pressed and released event to the keyboard

[lamogui]

if (event.type == sf::Event::TextEntered) { if (event.text.unicode == '!' || event.text.unicode == '@'|| event.text.unicode=='|') { keyboard.handlekey(true,event.text.unicode); keyboard.handlekey(false,event.text.unicode); }

}

[Zardoz89]

I thought that Event::TextEntered returned a text string, not individual characters. I'm testing it in a small test program to see how works.

[Zardoz89]

OK, works pretty fine. The only problem is that the generic keyboard will push a Shift pressed /released after and before.

Updated: Implemented