keyboard problem

[Stefan Leichter]

Hello all,

after a long time of debugging (because of my little experience with
windows programing and debugging), i found the problem that breaks the
keyboard input of my favorite game "You Don't Know Jack" (demos of newer
versions downloadable at http://www.take2.de/downloads/demos.php).

The problem is that the game is waiting for keyboard input by checking
for the messages WM_KEYDOWN, WM_CHAR and WM_KEYUP at least for the keys
1-0 and a-z. But wine generates the messages WM_SYSKEYDOWN, WM_SYSCHAR?
and WM_SYSKEYUP.

The problem is in the file "windows/message.c" in the methode
"process_raw_keyboard_message" in the line 383:

if (msg->message < WM_SYSKEYDOWN) msg->message += WM_SYSKEYDOWN -
WM_KEYDOWN;

For some reason i do not understand the message becomes changed. If i
remove this line the game recognize the keyboard input and is playable
(somehow).

An other option(untested) for the game is to change the line to
something like this:

if (msg->message < WM_KEYDOWN) msg->message += WM_SYSKEYDOWN -
WM_KEYDOWN;

Does anyone know why the message becomes changed? Or does anyone know a
better fix for the problem? Is there a program the need the line as it
is?

Tschüß Stefan

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