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Bug 712

Summary: Arrow keys seems to be not intercepted in Windows Vista
Product: SDL Reporter: Dmitri Vedenko <vedenko>
Component: eventsAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: takeda
Version: HG 2.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows Vista   
URL: http://freya3d.co.cc

Description Dmitri Vedenko 2009-03-06 04:50:53 UTC 
Hello, I'm using 4454 revision of SDL, and I experience the following strange behavior. On Windows Vista SP1 (library and code are compiled using MSVS 2005 Professional) SDL seems to not intercept events connected with arrow buttons (still code works perfectly on Linux (x86) and Mac Os X 10.5.6).

I am using the following code Uint8* state = SDL_GetKeyboardState(NULL); to fetch the keyboard state snapshot and I properly update SDL event queue. As far as I can see, all other keys work perfectly
Comment 1 Dmitri Vedenko 2009-03-08 00:46:32 UTC 
Tests under Windows XP SP2 shown the same problem
Comment 2 Derek Kulinski 2009-08-22 12:55:58 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Tests under Windows XP SP2 shown the same problem

Do you call SDL_PumpEvents() before using SDL_GetKeyboardState()?

I have problem with key handling but SDL_GetKeyboardState() works for me on Vista.
Comment 3 Derek Kulinski 2009-08-22 12:57:28 UTC 
Actually looks like you're referring to SVN version, I'm using stable. Sorry.
I guess I can't delete my last post.
Comment 4 Sam Lantinga 2009-09-26 03:09:53 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 743 ***