Re: [Qemu-devel] Mac keyboard not supported

[Laurent Amon]

I agree that this is not the best of solutions but just a quick hack to 
make qemu useable on the mac.
However, I am not sure the SDL guys are quick at applying patches and I 
do not even think SDL will ever give correct results on the mac, unless 
there is a major rework.

Actually, to make a perfect keyboard emulation on the mac would need to 
work at the Carbon level (to differenciate between the left and right 
modifier keys) and remap everything correctly to a PC keybord (taking 
into account whether the modifier keys are active, since some 
characters are placed differently from  a PC keyboard. Not a simple 
project and since my developer skills are quite rusty (and I never was 
a Mac programmer), I'll stick to simple things. If anybody wants to 
tackle this, either at the qemu or at the SDL level, you're welcome.

I also agree that patching SDL is a better solution. On the other hand, 
you would have to include specially patched SDL binaries when you 
distribute a binary on FreeOSZoo. And people tracking CVS would also 
have to patch and compile SDL (actually, there are a couple things to 
patch in QuartzGL anyway, so...).

Bye for now,

Lga.

On 2 janv. 05, at 20:22, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Phil Krylov wrote:
>
> > I have U.S. layout on a TiBook. 'A' returns SDLK_WORLD_0 (160) here...
>
> This is wrong. It's SDL's fault. As most of the other errors with the
> keymaps. 'A' *has to* return SDLK_A, and it is semi-standard that
> SDLK_WORLD_* are *only* returned when Latin1-characters are pressed
> (ä,ö,etc.), and then return the Latin1 code for it.
>
> Looking at the SDL-sources, it seems quite easy to solve those bugs. 
> Those
> are bugs. And by fixing it, you fix all SDL applications on OS X, not 
> just
> QEmu. And you can concentrate on useful things after that. Fixing those
> bugs is so much better than working around them. Working around them
> *never* will be portable, and it's a *duplication* of work. I'd do it
> myself, but I don't *have* a Mac. If you provide me one, I'd be glad to
> fix the problem.
>
> If the wall turns black, it might be better to put out the fire 
> instead of
> painting the wall white all the time.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
>
>
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