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Bug 3663

Summary: Can't get key with GetKeyFromName()
Product: SDL Reporter: Miguel SARO <miguel_saro>
Component: *don't know*Assignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.0.5   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: macOS 10.12   

Description Miguel SARO 2017-06-07 18:59:24 UTC 
Bonjour,
I'm working on remapping keyboard in Hatari project. I'm with à Macbook Pro (fr).
In Hatari to parse one character, its key is obtained with:

int Keymap_GetKeyFromName(const char *name)
{
	return SDL_GetKeyFromName(name);
}

Results of made tests with this are:
name = Left Ctrl    Key = 0x400000e0
name = Left Shift   Key = 0x400000e1
name = Left Alt     Key = 0x00000000   (Left Alt -> fail ?)

Thomas (from Hatari) think this is propre to OSx.
So he said I have to do a feed back.
Regards
    Miguel
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2017-08-11 18:14:33 UTC 
On Mac OS X the ALT key has a different name:
SDL_cocoakeyboard.m:    SDL_SetScancodeName(SDL_SCANCODE_LALT, "Left Option");
SDL_cocoakeyboard.m:    SDL_SetScancodeName(SDL_SCANCODE_RALT, "Right Option");