Patch for dinput keyboard

[Ove Kaaven]

On Sun, 19 May 2002, Arjen Nienhuis wrote:

> >Right. dinput.h defines it as:
> >
> >#define DI_OK                           S_OK
> >
> >so it's the canonical return value from DirectInput methods.
> >
> DI_NOTOK whould be better.

Oh, is that what you meant. Yeah, I suppose it should have returned
something like that, but the original code didn't, and I wasn't trying to
overhaul the code beyond what was necessary to get the job done.

> It is not possible to use memcopy when dodsize != sizeof(DeviceObjectData).

Hmm. Right. The < sanity check for dodsize should probably have been a !=
check. Not sure where it came from.

> >It works in WineX since map mode 3 is actually implemented there. I may be
> >able to submit the patch that implements it if you want, it's not a very
> >big patch.
> >  
> >
> Is map mode mode 3 not dependant on the NumLock state then? DInput 
> isn't. But on the other hand, it only mathers when someone acquires the 
> device while a key is pressed.

The problem I wanted to solve with map mode 3 was distinguishing left and
right shift keys. I'm not sure about numlock.

> Well here is my new patch. I only used the Hook idea and the critical 
> sections. It is better now, and shorter.

OK, maybe the WineX code will be replaced with your code eventually, then.