Ashley Whetter
RHEL6 and CentOS6 systems still use an old version of udev (147). It wasn't until udev 148 (Yep. 1 version off!) that the input class system changed from "ID_CLASS" to "ID_INPUT_{JOYSTICK,KEYBOARD,MOUSE,etc}" (http://lwn.net/Articles/364728/). Because SDL2 looks for the ID_INPUT_X field this means that it never detects any input devices on RHEL6 systems.
I've attached a patch which fixes the problem. If no input devices are detected with "ID_INPUT_X" then SDL will fallback to looking for the old style "ID_CLASS" udev field instead.
Because of the "big change" between udev versions I doubt it'll ever get upgraded on RHEL6, but because RHEL7 is on the way I don't know if this patch is worth merging. Hopefully it'll help anyone out that's having this problem though.
Sylvain
Someone provided a patch for this, recently on the mailing list :
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Hi,
it is possible to skip the bug in libX11 by using the defaults for
XNResourceName and XNResourceClass in `XCreateIC' (the table for the
"Input Context Values" [1] in libX11-doc shows that a default is
provided if it is not set).
diff -ur SDL2-2.0.3~/src/video/x11/SDL_x11window.c SDL2-2.0.3/src/video/x11/SDL_x11window.c
--- SDL2-2.0.3~/src/video/x11/SDL_x11window.c 2014-04-04 17:09:40.764307181 +0200
+++ SDL2-2.0.3/src/video/x11/SDL_x11window.c 2014-04-04 17:10:23.887765046 +0200
@@ -239,8 +239,7 @@
data->ic =
X11_XCreateIC(videodata->im, XNClientWindow, w, XNFocusWindow, w,
XNInputStyle, XIMPreeditNothing | XIMStatusNothing,
- XNResourceName, videodata->classname, XNResourceClass,
- videodata->classname, NULL);
+ NULL);
}
#endif
data->created = created;
Tito Latini
[1] http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7-RC1/doc/libX11/libX11/libX11.html#Input_Context_Values
Lasse ??rni
While enabling $1 gesture support in the Urho3D engine which uses SDL2 I detected some errors in the gesture code in SDL_gesture.c:
- In the function SDL_SaveAllDollarTemplates() the following line should use index variable j instead of i:
rtrn += SaveTemplate(&touch->dollarTemplate[i], dst);
- In the function SDL_SaveDollarTemplate() the following code should use index variable j instead of i:
if (touch->dollarTemplate[i].hash == gestureId) {
return SaveTemplate(&touch->dollarTemplate[i], dst);
- In the function SDL_SendGestureDollar() the x & y coordinates are being written to the mgesture structure, which results in garbage due to dgesture and mgesture being different data structures inside the union. The coordinates should be written to dgesture.x & dgesture.y respectively
Changes included:
- adding support for a few, additional, VirtualKey constants
- removing accesses to 'windows_scancode_table', as the table's contents
don't line up with WinRT virtual keys. Using Windows older VK_* constants
may, however, be a good alternative in a future update.
