Hi guys,
I may have diverged from the actual GSoC requirements but yesterday I was looking at Morphic events and I made this simple object called KeyboardMorph which I believe it could be useful to handle keyboard events better than what we currently have.
I made an Asteroids remake to test it: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/gsoc/Asteroids.051.pr. I did this project some time ago and I felt really dissapointed at that time because Etoys keyboard support wasn't enough to play with it so I made it work with a joystick. Now you can choose between joystick or keyboard :)
Please note that to handle multiple keys simultaneously the KeyboardMorph has a set of boolean slots to test if a specific key is currently pressed or not. I only added support for number, letters, and a few special keys (space, enter, arrows). I think this is more than enough for most purposes. I also added a currentKeyValue slot which returns the key value of the currently pressed key.
I know different keyboards have different layouts, maybe we can make specific KeyboardMorphs for each supported layout. What do you think?
Cheers Richo