Hello everyone,

I'm attempting to develop a better pinball game for Linux that will use GLX. I can get hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics without any problems, but keyboard event handling through the program's event handler is far too slow . Is there a way to bypass the event handler and asynchronously read the keyboard, kind of like the SDL_GetKeyState() function, or the GetAsyncKeyState() function from the MFC? Nothing against SDL, but I'd like to avoid using it for now, to help familiarize myself with OpenGL.

Thank you

Specifically, the program is designed to work with X11. I'd like to be able to quickly read keystrokes from the keyboard without using X protocol events. I'd like to asynchronously determine if a key is being pressed or released without having to go through the event handler (way, way too slow for gaming). Is there a function ANYWHERE that will let me do this? Could I do something like this in Linux:

//hande keyboard input
void HandleKeys(void) {

if(KEY_PRESSED(KEY_LEFT)) {
//do something if the left arrow key is pressed
}
if(KEY_PRESSED(KEY_RIGHT)) {
//do something if the right arrow key is pressed
}

}

How is it typically done in Linux games?

Thank you