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Bug 272 - Dvorak Keyboard Layout broken
Summary: Dvorak Keyboard Layout broken
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: SDL
Classification: Unclassified
Component: events (show other bugs)
Version: 1.2.11
Hardware: x86 Windows (All)
: P2 minor
Assignee: Sam Lantinga
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
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Reported: 2006-07-06 11:10 UTC by Greg Kennedy
Modified: 2007-07-05 23:41 UTC (History)
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Description Greg Kennedy 2006-07-06 11:10:01 UTC 
The latest stable release binary (1.2.11) is no longer recognizing my alternate keyboard layout correctly: all keypresses are interpreted as if I were using a QWERTY layout.

I do not have this problem using a 1.2.10 development version supplied with a DevPak for Dev-C++ (from www.devpaks.org)
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2007-02-15 04:35:04 UTC 
This is likely because we default to the windib driver now. Try forcing the directx driver and see if it makes a difference.

   // Put this before the call to SDL_Init() ...
   SDL_putenv("SDL_VIDEODRIVER=directx");

--ryan.
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2007-07-03 03:09:27 UTC 
Tossing bug to Sam...this will probably be fixed as a side effect of the new keyboard code slated for 1.3? Please decide if you want to tackle this for 1.2, otherwise flag it as WONTFIX.

--ryan.
Comment 3 Sam Lantinga 2007-07-05 23:41:07 UTC 
This appears to work with the latest SDL 1.2 snapshot and Windows 98

Here's the output of QWERTY in the DVORAK layout:
Key pressed:  39-'  (') modifiers: (none)
Key pressed:  44-,  (,) modifiers: (none)
Key pressed:  46-.  (.) modifiers: (none)
Key released:  39-'  modifiers: (none)
Key pressed:  112-p  (p) modifiers: (none)
Key released:  44-,  modifiers: (none)
Key released:  46-.  modifiers: (none)
Key released:  112-p  modifiers: (none)
Key pressed:  121-y  (y) modifiers: (none)
Key released:  121-y  modifiers: (none)
Key pressed:  102-f  (f) modifiers: (none)
Key released:  102-f  modifiers: (none)

Can you retest and reopen this bug if you're still seeing a problem with the latest SDL code?
You can get it from: http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.2.zip