Question

I would like to generate an SDL_Event but it doesn’t seem work. Here’s my code to generate:

Uint8* keys; 

SDL_Event ev;
ev.type = SDL_KEYDOWN;
ev.key.state = SDL_PRESSED;
ev.key.keysym.sym = SDLK_LEFT;

SDL_PushEvent(&ev); 
keys = SDL_GetKeyState(NULL);

Later I’m checking if it’s there:

if(keys)
{
    if(keys[SDLK_LEFT])
    {
        //Do something
    }
…

Why doesn’t it work? Do I need to initialize anything else? Or it there and easier way to generate an [SDLK_LEFT] Keyboard event? I’ve also tried keys[SDLK_LEFT] = true; with no succes.

Answer 1

I got it working now with the following code:

keys = SDL_GetKeyState(NULL);
keys[SDLK_LEFT] = TRUE;

After reading the keys I set them back to FALSE