[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] [Tuxmath-devel] libt4k_common update

[David Bruce]

Hi Brendan,

>> I did recently notice that input bug in TuxType; I wasn't sure whether
>> it was only in my branch, because AFAIK the library doesn't have
>> anything input-related, and if it does, it's certainly not being used.
>> The source code hasn't really changed much at all, TBH. Oh, well, more
>> fun to debug.

Any progress figuring out what the deal is with keyboard input in the
tuxtype commonification branch?  I've been looking at it for the last
couple hours with some debugging printf()s, and something really
baffling is going on here.  In the "while (SDL_PollEvent(&event))"
loop at line 255, no keydown events get received for presses of
regular letter keys, punctuation, or anything else *except* Esc and
F10, which work correctly.  It isn't even a case of the events having
the wrong Unicode value - they don't get picked up at all.  I am at a
complete loss for what might be going on here.

The master branch works fine.

So, unless you have been able to figure something out, I think we may
need to start the "commonification" branch of tuxtype over with a much
smaller divergence from master.  Maybe just link in libt4k without
actually calling any libt4k functions, for starters, then migrate one
function at a time to libt4k.  Also, I wonder if the preprocessor
renaming might be triggering some unexpected side effects.  Perhaps,
if we see that a "#define foo_bar T4K_foo_bar" creates a bug, we could
instead go back and manually put in the T4K's until we see when the
bug occurs.

Anyway, good work overall!

David