Discussion - should IInputReceiverKeyboard be generic?

[vchelaru]

Currently IInputReceiverKeyboard has the following members:

    bool IsShiftDown { get; }
    bool IsCtrlDown { get; }
    bool IsAltDown { get; }
    string GetStringTyped();

The following is being added temporarily to help unify more raylib code:

    IEnumerable<int> KeysTyped { get; }

However, additional methods are needed for keys typed, repeat rate, etc. These could also use int but it would require a lot of casting, and would require implementors to handle creating conversion methods from their enum to int.

Instead, we could make this generic:

public interface IInputReceiverKeyboard
    <T> where T : struct, System.Enum

This would allow all Forms code to use IInputReceiverKeyboard directly.

Alternatively, everything could use KeyCombos and that code could internally cast to the right library, but that also makes the code more difficult to maintain across multiple platforms.

This change will likely require some changes to FlatRedBall, so need to investigate here.

[vchelaru]

I'm closing this out, I was able to implement raylib TextBox using the current implementation. Maybe we can review this in the future if there's another runtime that adds forms, but for now this is good enough.