I'm fairly new to GLUT programming, and this is a slight problem I had. GLUT calls my keyboard function when a key is pressed. Here is what it looks like:
Okay, that works as far as I'm concerned. But obviously I need keyboard codes to read keys such as ESC, and ARROWKEYS. Where do I find the codes for these?Code:void keyboard(unsigned char key, int x, int y) { switch (key) { case 'd': // do something here break; default: break; } }
VK_ESCAPE
VK_UP
VK_DOWN
VK_LEFT
VK_RIGHT
etc
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The compiler doesn't recognize it. Probably because I'm on a Mac. Or do I need a certain header?
Those key codes are for windows.
You could just output the keycode char to see what it is when those keys are pressed. I don't know much about glut so I can't give you an exact.
Here you go
http://www.opengl.org/resources/libr...00000000000000
Last edited by prog-bman; 02-20-2006 at 09:16 PM.
Woop?
open up glut.h and look
GLUT_KEY_LEFT
GLUT_KEYF1
etc..
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~bcheun1/glut.h
Thanks.... should have thought of it myself.
It didn't work. I opened up the debugger, and the function never gets called when an arrow key or other "special" key gets pressed. It only gets called when a key like 'W' get pressed. This is the line I'm using to get my keyboard input:
Code:// (main function) glutKeyboardFunc(keyboard); . . . glutMainLoop();
Last edited by joeprogrammer; 02-21-2006 at 07:45 PM.
Got to put glutSpecialFunc
Code:void SpecialKeys(int key, int x, int y) { case GLUT_KEY_UP: //do something } glutSpecialFunc(SpecialKeys); //so on so forth
Woop?
Have a look here for some commonly used glut callbacks
http://jeff.bagu.org/downloads/glut/EmptyGlut.cpp
OK good. Thanks for your help. I'm just working through the tutorials on NeHe and they don't cover every thing about game programming, so it's good to have a nice forum like this one
