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Re: [pygame] Numeric wireless keyboard



Have you asked on the SDL mailing list yet? Since this does indeed seem 
to be an SDL problem, they are likely to be interested in the problem 
too.

http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org

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James Paige

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 08:52:38PM -0400, PierreLafrance1@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi
> I have succeffully (with a certain amount of pain to update Ubuntu and
> ARM systems  ;-)  compiled a SDL program.
> 
> On ARM system, SDL doesn't receive good event ID (if I may call it like
> this).  When pressing any digit from wired keyboard, it works fine.
> When pressing any digit from wireless keyboard, it receive : "numlock
> key was pressed".
> 
> So Pygames is out of the loop, like you all suspected (I have to learn).
>  Now what do I do to progress in my investigation ?
> Can I recompile SDL with different options ?
> Is SDL relies on an other librairy ?
> Both system have libsdl version 1.2
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Pierre Lafrance
> 
> 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 have succeffully (with a certain amount of pain to update Ubuntu and
> > ARM systems ;-) compiled a SDL program.
> > 
> > On ARM system, SDL doesn't receive good event ID (if I may call it like
> > this).  When pressing any digit from wired keyboard, it works fine.
> > When pressing any digit from wireless keyboard, it receive : "numlock
> > key was pressed".
> > 
> > So Pygames is out of the loop, like you all suspected (I have to learn).
> >  Now what do I do to progress in my investigation ?
> > Can I recompile SDL with different options ?
> > Is SDL relies on an other librairy ?
> > Both system have libsdl version 1.2
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> 
> 
> 
>