Re: [pygame] Numeric wireless keyboard

[James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:14:52AM -0400, PierreLafrance1@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> James Paige wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:58:27AM -0400, PierreLafrance1@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> René Dudfield wrote:
> >>> yeah, looks like somewhere the keyboard mappings aren't working.
> >>> Likely in linux, C or SDL land.
> >>>
> >>> This is not a pygame level issue.
> >>>
> >>> Check on the SDL mailing list, or the arm platform mailing list perhaps?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> cheers,
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Hi Rene.
> >> What I don't understand is :
> >> + The alphanumeric keyboards works fine with ARM plateform and Pygame
> >> + The numeric keyboard works fine with ARM plateform in a text editor
> >> + The numeric keyboard does't works fine with ARM plateform and Pygame
> >>
> >> So I'm not sure what to look at yet since hardware and software is ok.
> >> Anyway, I'll keep you post on progress
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Pierre
> > 
> > I would suggest writing a very small test program in C using SDL. You 
> > can find some suitable example code at 
> > http://www.libsdl.org/intro.en/usingevents.html
> > 
> > Compile it with gcc, and use it to test and see if this problem affects 
> > the underlying SDL library when python and pygame are not involved.
> > 
> > That will narrow down where the problem is.
> > 
> > ---
> > James Paige
> > 
> > 
> Hi
> I'm compiling the code (my first prg with gcc), and doesn't find SDL.h.
>  I have done a find on SDL (find -name "SDL.h"), without success. Where
> and how can I find this file ?  Do I have to install SDL ? (I'm assuming
> Python is using it and its there...)
> 
> Thanks!

Your probably don't have the development files for SDL installed. If I 
recall correctly, pygame only uses the runtime files, and doesn't need 
the development files.

If you are using Debian or a derivative like Ubuntu, you need to install 
the libsdl1.2-dev package. I don't know the package name for other 
distributions, but it will be something similar.

---
James Paige