SDLConsole.cpp

Timestamp:

Sep 11, 2007 11:29:11 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

Added comments explaining about the Linux/X11 keyboard handling in SDL/BFE

File:

trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxBFE/SDLConsole.cpp

-              r4554
+              r4700
     keycode = ev->keysym.scancode;
+#if defined(VBOXBFE_WITH_X11) && !defined(RT_OS_SOLARIS) /// @todo verify that these are X11 issues and not unique linux issues.
+                                                         // -> doesn't seem to work on solaris...
+    // workaround for SDL keyboard translation issues on X11
+#if defined(RT_OS_LINUX)
+    // workaround for SDL keyboard translation issues on Linux
+    // keycodes > 0x100 are sent as 0xe0 keycode
+    // Note that these are the keycodes used by XFree86/X.org
+    // servers on a Linux host, and will almost certainly not
+    // work on other hosts or on other servers on Linux hosts.
+    // For a more general approach, see the Wine code in the GUI.
     static const uint8_t x_keycode_to_pc_keycode[61] =
+    {

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