Textinput

[Guppy]

Is there a way to get raw key presses in Leadwerks?

 

I mean getting an the actuall letter "A" rather than a Leadwerks::Key::A

 

My first naive approach after noticing that window->keyhitstate was 256 long was to simply convert it to ascii;

 

    std::string inputbuffer="";
    for( int i=0; i < 256; i++ ){
	    if (window->keyhitstate[i]){
               [size=3]inputbuffer[/size]+=static_cast<char>(i);
	    }
    }
    window->FlushKeys();

 

However that gets me all keys as uppercase and f1-12 as lower case letters - and even if it worked there is a very high risk of getting inputs out of order

 

I worry that reading the keys manually will either prevent leadwerks input from working or yield no results as leadwerks already emptied the keyboard buffer.

[Josh]

There's probably no real disadvantage to the way you describe above. An out of order key would probably be a pretty rare event.

[DerRidda]

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/10578-is-there-any-way-to-get-a-keymouse-button-directly-in-lua/

 

Also want that.

[Guppy]

As I continue on this today something has changed - keyhitstate and keydownstate will both only ever hold 1 character, holding down for instance shift and a will result in only the last key pressed being set to true.

 

The same is true for holding down multiple characters.

 

 std::string inputBuffer="";
 int c=0;
 for( int i=0; i < 256; i++ ){
		 if (window->keyhitstate[i]){
			 inputBuffer+=static_cast<char>(i);
			 inputBuffer+=" ["+std::to_string(i)+"]";
			 inputBuffer+=",";
			 c++;
		 }
 }
 if ( c > 0 ) {
	 inputBuffer=std::to_string(c)+" characters: "+inputBuffer;
 }
 window->FlushKeys();

 

I figured this was due to the beta code, but even after uninstalling leadwerks and re-installing and rebuilding my project the problem persists.

 

 

So something else is afoot here, but what?

[Guppy]

To illustrate the problem more clearly than the above ramblings;

 

Holding down shift and hitting h,e,l,l,o

 

results in:

 

H:16

D:16

H:72

D:72

H:69

D:69

H:76

D:76

H:76

D:76

H:79

D:79

 

with this code

 for( int i=0; i < 256; i++ ){
		 if ( window->keyhitstate[i] )
		 std::cerr << "H:" << std::to_string(i) << std::endl;
		 if ( window->keydownstate[i] )
		 std::cerr << "D:" << std::to_string(i) << std::endl;
 }

 

Where each new letter should also have a D:16