$ in the gui

#1 Well... for other programming languages you just use \$

Not sure if that works in Torque, though

#2 yeah, but it's in the actual "GUI Editor".
I cannot get that char directly from the keyboard because it seams like I cannot use the 'Alt' + another key.

I can use 'Shift' + another key but because '$' is 'Alt' + '4' on a Swedish keyboard layout I cannot get that char from my keyboard in the "Gui Editor".

Works good if I print it in the actual .cs file, but I'm a newbie to the Torque engine so I don't wanna get into that right know... I will probably do that later, when I know the engine itself better.

Seams like I cannot do a '?' either from my keyboard... this sucks, '?' is quite important in "ingame chat" I think. My keyboard layout works fine in all other apps.

#3 That's odd. As far as I know, it should be working fine regardless of the keyboard layout. Try toggling whether DirectInput is on or off in prefs.cs.

#4 I guess I enable it with:
$pref::Input::DirectInput = "1";
and disable it with a "0";

that did not change anything :(

#5 Are you running torque on Windows or Linux?

#6 I'm running torque on Linux.

#7 Torque on linux has problems with non-US keyboards. I created a Project Manager bug for it:

www.garagegames.com/projectmanager/issue.php?qis=256

I can't fix these issues because I don't have an appropriate test system. Hoping that someone in the international community will step up and fix them :)

#8 Sounds good, hopefully someone will find the problem.

#9 Doh! This is what I get for not noticing the category.

#10 @John: I might give it a go... I'll talk to you about it later on.

#11 After I have looked into this a little more I see that it's probably not a Torque error/bug it's in SDL. I created a simple test program with SDL that checked for the keysyms of all keys that I pressed on. When I pressed "Alt Gr" it said it had keysym 0 and keyname Unknown. I looked in the source in SDL but I didn't see any errors :(
I guess the error is somewhere in sdl-source/video/x11/x11_events.c or whatever the file was named. In that file there is a Translate function that is meant to translate the x11 keymap into the SDL keymap I guess the error is there somewhere.

Could anyone see if you could find the error?

#12 Yes, the problem is in SDL, we are looking into a possible solution, I already added some bindings to torque that make some keys on my spanish keyboard to work, the weird part is that ALT GR does work on my torque/SDL-Test application. It won't print any special symbols on torque, but for example ALT + C to change camera mode works... can you try that?

#13 ALT + C works for me

#14 I experimented with some UNICODE stuff and I got it to "work" I was able to use the modifiers with another key correctly but not the modifiers themself only, so I stopped the tweaking :)

#15 I checked in Xavier's code and some of my own. Please let me know if this fixes your problems (or causes more problems :)

#16 Actually I did not notice any diffrents :(

#17 Ok, so the problem is still that the Alt-Gr key doesn't work? But you mentioned that you were able to get it to working with some experimental code? What changes did you make in that code?

#18 yeah same problem.

well, I enabled UNICODE and used it instead of a regular SDLKey, so I replaced the functions that "converted" a SDLKey to a torque key to a function that "converted" a UNICODE value to a torque key. I did some other changes to but I can't remember what those changes was, I gave up and deleted the code :)