How to handle keyboard input

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg <madsdyd@challenge.dk>]

Hey all.

Doing a game with OpenGL, using glutKeyboardFunc to get some
keypresses. However, this is not good:

a) Having to handle both KeyboardFunc and SpecialFunc, and *Up* funcs is 
   tiresome, and I have no garantee that a keydown will eventually
   generate a key up.
b) I can't handle multiple pressed keys.

I know absolutly nothing about coding in X. So, what is the preferred way
to handle keyboard/mouse/joystick input?

I have an idea that somehow these events should be handled by the same
logic, ie, I have one "stream" of events. Maybe I need to sample the mouse
and joystick regulary, but I don't mind.

Suggestions appreciated.

Mads

-- 
Mads Bondo Dydensborg.                               madsdyd@challenge.dk
Faced with the prospect of rereading this book, I would rather have my brains
ripped out by a plastic fork
                 - Charles Cooper, ZD net, in review of B@TSOT by Bill Gates.


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