Re: [Qemu-devel] Mac keyboard not supported

[Laurent Amon <amon@stanfordalumni.org>]

Selon Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Laurent Amon wrote:
>
> > On 28 déc. 04, at 02:16, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > >

> What are the messages for 1..0?

Can't tell you right now, I am at work. It is a mix of accented characters,
symbols and numbers. Some characters do appear twice.
>
> > I hacked a workable keyboard (or rather enhanced on a hack Johannes
> > Fortmann wrote) in july (posted to the list on july 17th and 21st) but
> > I'd rather build on the current system.
>
> You should, as the only way to support different keyboard layouts for
> other platforms than a PC would be to duplicate the work.

I should... what? Build through a new keymap or add code for the support of
other keyboard. I am not clear on the meaning of your sentence.
>
> > I guess that the mac keycodes are different from te PC ones and need an
> > extra translation. SDL is not perfect in that respect, though I haven't
> > tries 1.2.8 release.
>
> That aspect didn't change AFAIK. Anyway, the keycodes may differ, but
> *not* the keysyms. The whole purpose of keysyms *is* that they are
> platform-independent. If they are not correct on the Mac, then SDL has to
> be fixed.

My old patch did that, by providing extra transcoding. SDL seems to work
correctly when you are not changing platforms, but here we are trying to
emulate a PC keyboard under windows when the hardware is a Apple keyboard under
OSX. I can't expand more since I haven't studied the 0.6.1 code and I don't have
my machine at hand right now.

Rgds,

Lga.