[pygame] virtual keyboard input problems under windows

[Steve Castellotti <sc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all-

    I've written a simple pygame application which is meant to receive 
keystrokes from a third-party closed-source "virtual keyboard" program 
running under Windows.

    I can successfully receive keystrokes by using the physical 
keyboard and even through Microsoft's own "On Screen Keyboard" which is 
distributed with the OS for accessibility purposes.

    However I am unfortunately having no luck receiving keystrokes from 
this particular application (and that is the only means to interface 
with its output programmatically). I have at least confirmed the 
third-party application works with with other Windows applications such 
as Notepad.


    Can anyone recommend avenues to pursue in debugging this problem?


    Is pygame (SDL) somehow talking directly to the keyboard device 
driver, so no pygame.event objects are getting created?


    I've noticed elsewhere some details about SDL 1.3 having a 
rewritten, or at least different input model:

http://www.mail-archive.com/adonthell-devel@xxxxxxxxxx/msg00576.html


    ...would it make sense to try compiling the latest SVN of SDL 1.3 
under Windows and building Pygame Reloaded against that?


Thanks in advance

Steve Castellotti