OSX keyboard driver is missing support for the numeric pad "fullstop" key and the (EU) section sign (§) key #1523
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* mapped numeric keypad's period/fullstop/delete key to ALLEGRO_KEY_PAD_DELETE * mapped section sign (§) key to ALLEGRO_KEY_UNKNOWN+0
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For the record the key below Esc is mapped to TILDE for the US layout, and BACKSPACE with Norwegian layout on my Norwegian keyboard. This is on Windows. Someone with a US keyboard would have to verify the first one, but backspace makes little sense to me. The characters on that key are `~ in US layout, |§ in Norwegian. |
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…y to ALLEGRO_KEY_BACKSLASH2 on MacOS. The first is uncontroversial. The second is unclear, but perhaps a decent choice? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8133633?sortBy=rank says that the Usage ID of that key is 0x64. https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard/wiki/USB:-HID-Usage-Table#note-9 says that that usage maps to the international backslash key. Not having a physical keyboard, I cannot confirm one way or another. One snag is that there's https://keyshorts.com/blogs/blog/37615873-how-to-identify-macbook-keyboard-localization#norwegian which has both the section key (in the top left) and the internaltional tab key (to the right of left shift). I don't know what the expectation for those keys, or what they code would do for them. Not having a physical keyboard, I cannot confirm one way or another. Still, perhaps this is a better situation than before, where the key was unmapped entirely. Fixes liballeg#1523.
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…y to ALLEGRO_KEY_BACKSLASH2 on MacOS. The first is uncontroversial. The second is unclear, but perhaps a decent choice? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8133633?sortBy=rank says that the Usage ID of that key is 0x64. https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard/wiki/USB:-HID-Usage-Table#note-9 says that that usage maps to the international backslash key. Not having a physical keyboard, I cannot confirm one way or another. One snag is that there's https://keyshorts.com/blogs/blog/37615873-how-to-identify-macbook-keyboard-localization#norwegian which has both the section key (in the top left) and the internaltional tab key (to the right of left shift). I don't know what the expectation for those keys, or what they code would do for them. Not having a physical keyboard, I cannot confirm one way or another. Still, perhaps this is a better situation than before, where the key was unmapped entirely. Fixes liballeg#1523.
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…y to ALLEGRO_KEY_BACKSLASH2 on MacOS. The first is uncontroversial. The second is unclear, but perhaps a decent choice? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8133633?sortBy=rank says that the Usage ID of that key is 0x64. https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard/wiki/USB:-HID-Usage-Table#note-9 says that that usage maps to the international backslash key. Not having a physical keyboard, I cannot confirm one way or another. One snag is that there's https://keyshorts.com/blogs/blog/37615873-how-to-identify-macbook-keyboard-localization#norwegian which has both the section key (in the top left) and the internaltional tab key (to the right of left shift). I don't know what the expectation for those keys, or what they code would do for them. Not having a physical keyboard, I cannot confirm one way or another. Still, perhaps this is a better situation than before, where the key was unmapped entirely. Fixes liballeg#1523.
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While the keyboard drivers for Windows, Linux, X and SDL map the numeric keypad's period/fullstop/delete key to ALLEGRO_KEY_PAD_DELETE, the OSX driver maps it to ALLEGRO_KEY_FULLSTOP. I think this is incorrect and makes it impossible to distinguish between the period/fullstop key on the main keyboard and the one on the numeric keypad.
My suggestion is to map this key on OSX to ALLEGRO_KEY_PAD_DELETE, the same way as the other OS's do.
Also on OSX, the Section Sign key (§) - which on European Mac keyboards is located below the Escape key - isn't currently mapped.
My suggestion is to map this key to ALLEGRO_KEY_UNKNOWN+0, so al least its key press can be handled.
I'll create a PR if that's OK.
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