Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:20:12 +0100
From: Manuel Bilderbeek <manuel@msxnet.org>
To: sdl@libsdl.org
Subject: [SDL] PRINT (Print Screen) key event and full screen problems in wind
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Hello all,

For our SDL-powered MSX emulator (openMSX), we use a key binding to the
print-screen key (SDLK_PRINT). This works fine on e.g. Linux, but not in
Windows. Here's some quotes from durnew on IRC:

<durnew> windows only reports print screen on KEYUP
<durnew> not KEYDOWN
<durnew> not certain how to fix that, other than document it
<durnew> Diablo-D3: well, the directx driver requires a different fix
<durnew> as it doesn't have a scancode for print screen               
<durnew> i've been trying to figure out what the deal was!         
<durnew> but atleast i've located the issues :)
<durnew> ah, well, both drivers were broken anyway!             
<durnew> neither one of them is fixable
<durnew> without rewriting half the library
<durnew> which i imagine, is why they aren't fixed!
<durnew> the windib driver issue can be half fixed :\                  
<durnew> Quibus: windib only reports that scancode on KEYUP and directx 
only contains a SYSRQ binding, SDL would have to give both SDLK_PRINT
and SDLK_SYSREQ the same values

Is there really nothing that could be done to get this working better
(or actually: working at all) in Windows?

The only way we could hack it into the windx driver, is to replace the
binding to SYSREQ with a binding to PRINT.... But that's not a good
solution of course.
Oh, and isn't this just a bug? If so, and if it's not yet in the
bugzilla, can someone please add it?