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| author | tjw <tjw@edf5b092-35ff-0310-97b2-ce42778d08ea> | 2007-02-14 23:29:19 +0000 |
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| committer | tjw <tjw@edf5b092-35ff-0310-97b2-ce42778d08ea> | 2007-02-14 23:29:19 +0000 |
| commit | 03adf14fd0c16df0f674f1aa69fdbb45996328a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9b490525a86d15d67d4b25509d7ce958791a7705 /README | |
| parent | 4abb9b0b7511e62de9f548415b484ace2454a3ef (diff) | |
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* (bug 2741) Adds support in the SDL client for many keys that were not
recognized. For example, F13, F14, F15, WINDOWS, SCROLLLOCK, CAPSLOCK,
WORLD_0 - WORLD_95, etc. (Christophe Cavalaria)
* (bug 2741) Adds the hard-coded toggleConsole bind Shift-Escape
* (bug 2741) Adds detailed explaination of SDL keyboard handling differences
in the README file.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.icculus.org/quake3/trunk@1044 edf5b092-35ff-0310-97b2-ce42778d08ea
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@@ -288,6 +288,28 @@ Multiuser Support on Windows systems ioquake3.exe +set fs_homepath "c:\ioquake3" Note that this cvar MUST be set as a command line parameter. +SDL Keyboard Differences + ioquake3 clients built againt SDL (e.g. Linux and Mac OS X) have different + keyboard behaviour than the original Quake3 clients. + + * "Caps Lock" and "Num Lock" can not be used as normal binds since they + do not send a KEYUP event until the key is pressed again. + + * SDL > 1.2.9 does not support disabling "Dead Key" recognition. + In order to send "Dead Key" characters (e.g. ~, ', `, and ^), you + must key a Space (or sometimes the same character again) after the + character to send it on many international keyboard layouts. + + * The SDL client supports many more keys than the original Quake3 client. + For example the keys: "Windows", "SysReq", "ScrollLock", and "Break". + For non-US keyboards, all of the so called "World" keys are now + supported as well as F13, F14, F15, and the country-specific + mode/meta keys. + + SDL's "Dead Key" behaviour makes the hard-coded toggleConsole binds ~ and ` + annoying to use on many non-US keyboards. In response, an additional + toggleConsole bind has been added on the key combination Shift-Esc. + ------------------------------------------------------------- Contributing ----- Please send all patches to bugzilla (https://bugzilla.icculus.org), or join the |