Hey everyone, is it possible to do BufferedInput in SDL? Something similar that you can do with DirectX. What I mean is if there is a way to use input by not doing a SDL_GetKeyState() every time, but instead use something like events.

There''s an entire help section on events in SDL (chapter 8 of the docs)

To give you a short example:

                 while(SDL_PollEvent(&event)) {                        switch(event.type) {                        case SDL_KEYDOWN:                                switch(event.key.keysym.sym) {                                case SDLK_ESCAPE:                                        running = 0;                                        break;                                default:                                        break;                                }                                break;                        case SDL_QUIT:                                running = 0;                                break;                        }                }  

A list of SDLK_ constants can be found in docs/html/sdlkey.html

You can also tell SDL to give you a Unicode (well, pseudo-Unicode as it''s only 16 bit) representation of the entered character (found in event.key.keysym.unicode). You''ll have to call SDL_EnableUNICODE() first tho.

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Why do I never read the manuals??
Anyway, thank you very much!