Re: [pygame] Keyboards, other questions

[Chris Phoenix <cphoenix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On the Mac, which is Unix-based, the keyboard system setup does
distinguish keyboards - it allows keyboard-specific remapping of
function keys. I don't know how they do it, but I hope this is a
useful clue.

Chris

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:33 PM, PierreLafrance1@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <PierreLafrance1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> If I have a Linux base application, with 2 USB keyboards connected to
>>> it, is it possible to know, when a key is press, from wich keyboard the
>>> command is from ?
>
> You could investigate whether they show up as separate
> HID devices in the /dev directory. If so, you should be
> able to open them and read events from them individually.
>
> I don't think you'll be able to distinguish them if you
> get all your events through the standard pygame event
> queue, though.
>
> --
> Greg
>



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