[SDL] Alt-F4 not working on Windows

Mason Wheeler masonwheeler at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 30 15:49:43 PDT 2008


If that's what has to be done, then IMO it hasn't been fixed. <ALT>-<F4> is a Windows standard.  It always means "quit" on every program.  (A few games I've seen override this behavior, which I consider very poor design.)  Since by default, <ALT>-<F4> means "quit", it should always generate a SDL_QUIT event, not a SDL_KEYDOWN event.  (Same goes for <Command>-Q on Macs.)

----- Original Message ----
From: Abhinav Lele <abhinav.lele at gmail.com>
To: A list for developers using the SDL library. (includes SDL-announce) <sdl at lists.libsdl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:07:10 PM
Subject: Re: [SDL] Alt-F4 not working on Windows

>You need to check your code. Alt + F4 works on windows. You have to
>check for the event of Alt + F4 and then quit.


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