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jon5 is offline jon5
2011-11-18 , 18:28
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#38
SDL will translate OS mapped keys to an internal representation, at least thats my understanding.

In SDL, src/video/x11/SDL_x11events.c is a procedure named X11_TranslateKeycode which calls
Code:
xsym = XKeycodeToKeysym(display, kc, 0);
Which will read the global key mapping from X11.

Thus the SDL key mapping is a layer of abstraction above the OS and not a direct mapping to the hardware.