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I'm trying to use an application on a Macbook Pro with a British keyboard, that has been written with SDL. That laptop has no direct key for the Hash (#) character, and I normally need to press ALT-3 to get that character. But it appears SDL is trapping the ALT key, so preventing me using that character - unless I cut-and-paste it from another Mac application.

Has this been noticed before, and is there a work-around please?

Thank you

Is this happening for an SDL_TEXTINPUT event?

Jonny D


On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Peter Vince wrote:

Hi Jonny. Thanks for your reply. Short answer - yes.

Peter

Hi Jonny,

Yes - this is the code segment being used:

case SDL_TEXTINPUT:
i = 0;
while (ev.text.text[i] != '\0')
putkey(ev.text.text[i++]) ;
break ;

Regards,

Peter