[Bf-committers] Input

[Bob Holcomb]

>It's trivial to check what key was pressed on win32 without reguard to
>"system functions" (such as copy/paste).  Use DirectInput.  This works on
>win98 fine, and probably 95 as well.  However I don't know really anything
>about how the cross-platform stuff in blender is done, so no idea how
>difficult that would be

I don't think that this would be a good idea.  DirectInput and the other 
DirectX libraires are a large and fairly complicated system that I think 
would be overkill to get the scan code of a key.  Would using SDL's input 
system be another way to handle this?  It's already used in Blender, 
multi-platform and has a simpler coding style-none of the COM programming 
and device enumeration.

Cheers,

Bob

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