Hi > I think you probably can't get those messages without creating a > window, so try creating a window before getting events.
You were right all the way, it works now. Thanks, I'm ready to verify my ARM platform -- Pierre Lafrance -- Brian Fisher wrote: > I think you probably can't get those messages without creating a window, > so try creating a window before getting events. > > Also, you don't want to have a separate poll and wait func, which are > both called and both check for different messages. Both those functions > remove messages from the queue, so if a your poll function gets a > SDL_KEYDOWN message, it would end up throwing out the message and then > your wait function would never receive it. Just do the Poll thing, and > make it's switch statement do the prints for SDL_KEYDOWN as well. > > Anyways, once your test program works for your normal keyboard, then you > can try it out with the wireless in order to learn how SDL is or is not > reading that things key data, which will help you understand where the > problem lies and how to solve it. > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:05 PM, pierrelafran...@sympatico.ca > <mailto:pierrelafran...@sympatico.ca> <pierrelafran...@sympatico.ca > <mailto:pierrelafran...@sympatico.ca>> wrote: > > #include <stdio.h> > #include <stdlib.h> > #include "/usr/include/SDL/SDL.h" > > int MySDL_WaitEvent() > { > printf("About to call SDL_WaitEvent(&event)\n"); > SDL_Event event; > SDL_WaitEvent(&event); > > switch (event.type) > { > printf("In switch/case of SDL_WaitEvent(&event)\n"); > case SDL_KEYDOWN: > printf("The %s key was pressed!\n", > SDL_GetKeyName(event.key.keysym.sym)); > break; > case SDL_QUIT: > exit(0); > } > } > > > int MySDL_PollEvent() > { > printf("About to call SDL_PollEvent(&event)\n"); > SDL_Event event; > while ( SDL_PollEvent(&event) ) > { > switch (event.type) > { > printf("In switch/case of SDL_PollEvent(&event)\n"); > case SDL_MOUSEMOTION: > printf("Mouse moved by %d,%d to (%d,%d)\n", > event.motion.xrel, event.motion.yrel, > event.motion.x, event.motion.y); > break; > case SDL_MOUSEBUTTONDOWN: > printf("Mouse button %d pressed at (%d,%d)\n", > event.button.button, event.button.x, event.button.y); > break; > case SDL_QUIT: > exit(0); > } > } > } > > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) > { > printf("About to call SDL_Init()\n"); > if ( SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_AUDIO|SDL_INIT_VIDEO) < 0 ) > { > //fprintf(stderr, "Unable to init SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); > printf("Unable to init SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); > exit(1); > } > while(1) > { > printf("About to call MySDL_PollEvent()\n"); > MySDL_PollEvent(); > printf("About to call MySDL_WaitEvent()\n"); > MySDL_WaitEvent(); > } // while > > printf("About to call atexit()\n"); > atexit(SDL_Quit); > } > > -- > Pierre Lafrance > -- > >
