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Bug 3703

Summary: [PATCH] Missing media keys support on Amazon Fire TV remote control
Product: SDL Reporter: Holger Schemel <sdl-bugzilla>
Component: eventsAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.1   
Hardware: ARM   
OS: Android (All)   
Attachments: patch

Description Holger Schemel 2017-07-15 20:05:37 UTC
Created attachment 2799 [details]
patch

Summary: This patch adds support for key events for the "rewind" and "fast forward" media keys on the Amazon Fire TV remote control.

How to reproduce the problem: Run Android build of SDL2 application on the Amazon Fire TV (tested with "stick" version) and log key events.

Expected behaviour: Every key pressed on the Fire TV remote control should result in a corresponding key event (pressed/released).

Observed behaviour: Of the bottom row of buttons on the Fire TV remote control, only the "play/pause" (middle) button generates a key event, while the "rewind" (left) and "fast forward" (right) buttons to not generate any event at all.

The attached patch adds support for these two missing buttons/keys.

Note 1: Some missing definitions were added for the already existing key codes SDL_SCANCODE_APP1 and SDL_SCANCODE_APP2 (to keep up the correct order of enumerations / array positions when adding the two new key codes).

Note 2: Definitions in "scancodes_linux.h" and "scancodes_xfree86.h" (to also add support for these keys on other platforms) were added without testing. However, I was unable to find corresponding definitions for these two media keys for Windows and Mac OS X.

Note 3: I have also updated the (broken) link to the USB usage page standard PDF document (comment in "include/SDL_scancode.h").
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2017-07-20 17:47:07 UTC
Added, thanks!
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/504c67e71589

I changed the names of the scancodes to be more verbose and match the other platforms.