Keyboard input problem for games

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Keyboard input problem for games

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Thanks for the input, I need to think about this a bit :)

In general, I was hoping that most games would be able to use the joystick emulation (when this is activated, some host keys are intepreted as joystick input instead of keyboard input, but this also has issues - namely that the arrow keys and Spacebar no longer work as regular keys).

The reason that CHAR input is used is indeed that this provides an automatic key mapping for international (host) keyboards, instead of trying to map the home computer keyboards to modern 'physical' keyboards.

Another thing I have somewhere down on the todo list is virtual onscreen keyboards and joysticks, this would mainly be useful for mobile devices, but would also help to make 'exotic keys' on some home computers accessible which are currently ignored. This would not help with your specific problem though :)

I guess the best solution is - as you mentioned - a separate input mode which would use key up/down events instead of CHAR for all keyboard input.