[SDL] MacOS X + SDL 1.2.15 = unresponsive keyboard?

[Forest Hale]

I took a peek at the code you linked and could not draw solid conclusions from it without looking around more, but use of SDL_WaitEvent is something I'm not familiar with.

All the games I've written use SDL_PollEvent in a while loop, then update the graphics, then sleep for a certain amount of time (how much depending on the desired framerate and how much time has
passed since the previous frame).

Perhaps SDL_WaitEvent is being used incorrectly?  I can't say, but that is my suspicion.

On 03/06/2012 02:49 PM, Atis wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I built your game on MacOSX and indeed it is unresponsive.
> 
> The thing on MacOSX is that your SDL program must call either
> SDL_WaitEvent() or SDL_PollEvent() often to play nice with
> MacOSX's native event loops and what not.
> 
> Somehow your game spends a lot of time between calls
> to SDL_WaitEvent() updating the screen (I think). If I comment
> out lprint() calls inside the move_ghouls() function -- lines 614, 615
> within play.c file -- then keyboard input becomes responsive.
> 
> Atis
> 
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> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:26:34 -0800
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
> To: sdl at lists.libsdl.org
> Subject: [SDL] MacOS X + SDL 1.2.15 = unresponsive keyboard?
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> A long time ago I wrote a very silly game which nevertheless got a bit
> of a cult following in my friend circle.  As a result, I rewrote it in C
> using SDL several years ago.  Recently I was asked if I could provide a
> MacOS X version; since I don't have a Mac handy I cross-compiled it on
> Linux using the darwinx toolchain for Fedora:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW/CrossCompilerFramework
> 
> Since then I have gotten the feedback that "everything works, except the
> keyboard is very unresponsive; it often takes four or five attempts to
> get the player icon to change direction."
> 
> I am wondering if this is a known problem, or if there is something I am
> doing plain wrong.  The game works as intended on Windows or Linux.
> 
> Both binaries and source code are available at:
> 
>     http://www.zytor.com/pub/games/grv/
> 
>     -hpa
> 
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