Hello. Last night began some alpha testing of my new roguelike called Invader, which uses LISPBUILDER-SDL. See also http://dto.github.com/notebook/invader.html

I told everyone to use the latest svn of lispbuilder-sdl. But some people have trouble controlling the game because modifiers are not recognized properly. Indeed we seem to each be getting very different data out of SDL. I added print statements to print out 1. the raw key symbol and modifier data coming in from the SDL:WITH-EVENTS loop, and 2. the rlx-internal format these get translated into.

On my machine (debian lenny), pressing L, Control L, H, Alt H, gives this:

----------------------------------- SDL KEY AND MODS: (SDL-KEY-L SDL-KEY-MOD-NONE) TRANSLATED EVENT: (L)

SDL KEY AND MODS: (SDL-KEY-LCTRL SDL-KEY-MOD-NONE) TRANSLATED EVENT: (LCTRL)

SDL KEY AND MODS: (SDL-KEY-L SDL-KEY-MOD-LCTRL) TRANSLATED EVENT: (L CONTROL)

SDL KEY AND MODS: (SDL-KEY-H SDL-KEY-MOD-NONE) TRANSLATED EVENT: (H)

SDL KEY AND MODS: (SDL-KEY-LALT SDL-KEY-MOD-NONE) TRANSLATED EVENT: (LALT)

SDL KEY AND MODS: (SDL-KEY-H SDL-KEY-MOD-LALT) TRANSLATED EVENT: (H ALT) ------------------------------------

Whereas on other machines things like this happen when you try to press Alt-H:

SDL KEY AND MODS: (SDL-KEY-LALT 0) TRANSLATED EVENT: (LALT)

SDL KEY AND MODS: (SDL-KEY-H 256) TRANSLATED EVENT: (H)

SDL KEY AND MODS: (SDL-KEY-LCTRL 0) TRANSLATED EVENT: (LCTRL)

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Or Alt-F on yet another machine:

SDL KEY AND MODS: (SDL-KEY-F 0) TRANSLATED EVENT: (F)

SDL KEY AND MODS: (SDL-KEY-LMETA 0) TRANSLATED EVENT: (LMETA)

SDL KEY AND MODS: (SDL-KEY-F 1024) TRANSLATED EVENT: (F)

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It appears that I am always expecting a symbol or list of symbols for the :mod argument of :key-down-event in WITH-EVENTS. But on other machines people are getting numbers there.

But according to the LISPBUILDER-SDL documentation you should always get symbols to represent the modifiers:

MOD is current state of the keyboard modifiers as explained in SDL_GetModState. One or more of :SDL-KEY-MOD-NONE, :SDL-KEY-MOD-LSHIFT, :SDL-KEY-MOD-RSHIFT, :SDL-KEY-MOD-LCTRL, :SDL-KEY-MOD-RCTRL, :SDL-KEY-MOD-LALT, :SDL-KEY-MOD-RALT, :SDL-KEY-MOD-LMETA, :SDL-KEY-MOD-RMETA, :SDL-KEY-MOD-NUM, :SDL-KEY-MOD-CAPS, :SDL-KEY-MOD-MODE or :SDL-KEY-MOD-RESERVED.

BTW All the relevant translation code is in one file, console.lisp:

http://github.com/dto/rlx/raw/d93976f46ac0c8579b44882b49a6a82c1ada17f1/conso...

In case you would like to inspect further.