[SDL] Alt-F4 not working on Windows

[Will Langford]

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Mason Wheeler <masonwheeler at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > <ALT>-<F4> is a Windows standard.  It always means "quit" on every program.

While I'm not a majorly active developer in SDL at the moment, nor
very active in the mailing lists... I wouldn't mind throwing my two
cents into this foray.

Synopsis: this doesn't belong in SDL... much like many of the other
'why doesnt SDL do foo?' requests that penetrate beyond the 'SIMPLE'
part of the SDL name.  If there's a desire for a nice global 'catch
all common program termination keyboard combinations', I'd suggest the
creation of SDL_quit library or similar.

Clicking on the lil X, red circle, etc etc etc, causes the window
manager or similar to give SDL an eventual SDL_QUIT message.  It's
therefore up to window manager to signal the 'please close'.

I've played plenty of games under windows where ALT-F4 doesn't close
the game.  And in my humble opinion it shouldn't.  Granted, ALT-F4 is
a strange keyboard combination, but what if it was plausible to bind
something as such ?  Similar to CTRL-number, ALT-number, etc.

If ALT-F4 is supposed to generate an SDL_QUIT under windows, then what
about lining up code that generates an SDL_QUIT via some automagical
window manager / OS detection routine and associated keyboard
combinations ?  And what if I wanted to make any of those given key
combinations usable within my application rather than force a program
close ?

-Will