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Bug 1697

Summary: SDL adds a new keyboard input!!!
Product: SDL Reporter: chris <csynt>
Component: videoAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED ENDOFLIFE QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: critical    
Priority: P2 CC: icculus, philipp.wiesemann, rusifer2004
Version: 1.2.15   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Other   

Description chris 2013-01-16 11:00:14 UTC 
Hello,

When I run SDL applications on my system (windows 8 pro x64) I see that the language bar has an additional keyboard layout. In my case I have a UK and a Greek 
keyboard only. After I run an application that uses SDL I noticed a US keyboard layout too!

I am sure its 100% bug with the SDL as this happens with SDL applications.
Comment 1 Philipp Wiesemann 2013-01-16 12:17:47 UTC 
Maybe similar to bug 1665.
Comment 2 chris 2013-01-16 12:31:20 UTC 
Seems an issue with the windib video driver.
If I set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=DIRECTX on a specific SDL app, runs without add the US keyboard layout.
Comment 3 Sam Lantinga 2013-03-01 01:29:50 UTC 
Does this happen with the latest version of SDL 2.0?
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-2.0.zip

Thanks!
Comment 4 Sam Lantinga 2013-03-01 01:30:39 UTC 
*** Bug 1665 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 chris 2013-03-01 06:25:55 UTC 
I am unable to test it.

First, I "patched" the registry to handle the US keyboard as UK.
Second, the file you included is the source of SDL, there is no way for me to rebuild any SDL app on these files. sorry.
Comment 6 chris 2015-07-05 20:21:34 UTC 
Any news? The bug still exist.
Comment 7 Sam Lantinga 2015-07-05 22:48:23 UTC 
Alfred, did you see anything like this in your Windows keyboard work?
Comment 8 Ryan C. Gordon 2015-07-09 05:19:13 UTC 
(In reply to Sam Lantinga from comment #7)
> Alfred, did you see anything like this in your Windows keyboard work?

As far as I know, this is 1.2-specific. I've never heard this reported in SDL2.

--ryan.
Comment 9 Ryan C. Gordon 2015-08-25 09:38:23 UTC 
Hello, and sorry if you're getting several copies of this message by email, since we are closing many bugs at once here.

We have decided to mark all SDL 1.2-related bugs as RESOLVED ENDOFLIFE, as we don't intend to work on SDL 1.2 any further, but didn't want to mark a large quantity of bugs as RESOLVED WONTFIX, to clearly show what was left unattended to and make it easily searchable.

Our current focus is on SDL 2.0.

If you are still having problems with an ENDOFLIFE bug, your absolute best option is to move your program to SDL2, as it will likely fix the problem by default, and give you access to modern platforms and tons of super-cool new features.

Failing that, we _will_ accept small patches to fix these issues, and put them in revision control, although we do not intend to do any further official 1.2 releases.

Failing that, please feel free to contact me directly by email (icculus@icculus.org) and we'll try to find some way to help you out of your situation.

Thank you,
--ryan.