pete-gordon
Incompatible with non-QWERTY keyboards on macOS
My AZERTY keyboard doesn't map nicely to a piano keyboard in Hively Tracker. With the first octave selected (F1), pressing w produces D-2 instead of C-1. z produces C-1 when it should be C-2.
Setting the macOS keyboard layout preference to "U.S. International - PC", things work as they should. In fact, the US keyboard layout needs to be selected when starting Hively. After that, changing it doesn't have any effect.
IIRC SDL offers an option to interpret the raw keycodes instead of the mapped ones. Perhaps this can be used to make Hively work across all keyboard layouts?
Running the Windows build using Wine suffers from the same problem. Running the Windows build on Windows using VirtualBox does not (but sound is distorted when Hively is running).
Of course, changing the keyboard layout to US makes it more difficult to input the hexadecimal numbers in effects columns. So ideally, Hively should only use raw keycodes only when "parsing" piano keys.
SDL keyboard handling in general is not ideal for handling "text". To my knowledge, the reason for API to be designed this way, is that it works on all platforms.
Different OS's have very different API's for keyboard, information about mapping etc.
How to solve this: I will suggest to make an option in the UI to select if the keyboard is querty, azerty or dvorak....
