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Blog series on XInput 2

Blog series on XInput 2

Posted Jun 19, 2009 7:03 UTC (Fri) by eduperez (guest, #11232)
In reply to: Blog series on XInput 2 by Cyberax
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More than 256 keys!? Just for curiosity, do those exist?


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Blog series on XInput 2

Posted Jun 19, 2009 8:07 UTC (Fri) by arekm (subscriber, #4846) [Link]

I have keyboard with less than 256 keys but some keys produce keycodes bigger than value 256, so xi2 is the only sane (remapping is instane) way to handle them.

Blog series on XInput 2

Posted Jun 19, 2009 11:43 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Yes, they do exist.

However, the common problem is that a lot of quite common keyboards have additional keys which emit keycodes>256.

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