I hope this isn't too trivial of a question, but I'm using SDL keys constants
and I want to use a set that will be available on both platforms as well as
future proof. The main questions are commonality between the Mac/PC as
well as PC to PCs.

First, I take it that keyboards (Mac/PC) have and will always have the
tab, shift and Control (Ctrl) keys.

I see the Mac has an alt/option key. My one PC (Dell laptop) has an
Alt key. I take it, theses are the same?

Apple has a key with a little apple/four leaf clover. Whereas my PC shows
a little wavy flag Windows icon. I take it these and sort of unique to the
platform and one should stay away from them?


I guess a better way to put it would be: what keys are safe to use that will
be available across all Macs and PCs that have been built and will be built?

thanks

Alt and option are always the same, regardless. I can confirm that the meta key is the Apple key on Macs, but I can only give you a (very) educated guess that it's the Windows key on Windows. Either that, or nothing.