Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug in SDL key event processing

[Tomas Carnecky]

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Tomas Carnecky, le Thu 10 Jul 2008 01:27:49 +0200, a écrit :
> > Why is there OS (X11/Windows) specific code in the SDL frontend? And why 
> > does qemu need keymaps anyway?
>
> The keymaps are for the VNC case, where you get a keyboard symbol, not a
> keycode, so you need to know how to translate back into a scancode.

Well, every 'frontend' needs some kind of keymap table to map the events 
into bios scancodes. But there is no need to have user-editable keymap 
files. This mapping can be done entirely within the qemu code, within 
each of the frontends.


tom