Keys get stuck when switching windows with ALT+TAB

no-reply@allegro.cc (promitheas) — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:17:44 +0000

I am working on a game, and I noticed that when using al_key_down, if I switch windows with alt+tab, allegro will think that I am holding alt down, until I press and release it again. Anyone know anything I can do to fix this?

no-reply@allegro.cc (torhu) — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:59:01 +0000

What version of Allegro? IIRC, this was fixed many years ago.

no-reply@allegro.cc (promitheas) — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:08:43 +0000

ALLEGRO_VERSION_STR is 5.2.7, so that's probably the version

no-reply@allegro.cc (torhu) — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:18:36 +0000

The headers can have a different version from the binaries. You can check the real version by printing what al_get_allegro_version returns. Did you build the binaries yourself?

APPEND:
Maybe I'm mistaken, sorry. You can try calling al_clear_keyboard_state when you get the ALLEGRO_EVENT_DISPLAY_SWITCH_OUT event, that should fix it.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Edgar Reynaldo) — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:24:24 +0000

The event system is preferable to the state system. Look for keyboard events, not states. It doesn't have this problem.

no-reply@allegro.cc (promitheas) — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:47:16 +0000

Thanks, al_clear_keyboard_state() fixed it.
To use it I had to define ALLEGRO_UNSTABLE. Will it be wrong to only define ALLEGRO_UNSTABLE when I want to use functions that require it, or do I have to always define it before including anything from ALLEGRO?

no-reply@allegro.cc (Edgar Reynaldo) — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:41:46 +0000

#define ing ALLEGRO_UNSTABLE allows you to access the unstable parts of allegro. It is optional.