Re: labltk bind ~events list questions/bugs?

[John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>]

Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> 
> From: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
 
> > 2. As another question, if I have ~events:[`Modified
> > ([`Shift],`KeyPress)], sometimes I just get the keys that were pressed
> > when the shift key was down, sometimes I get a zillion Shift_L events,
> > and sometimes I get nothing.
> 
> Stranger. This should be only the first case. At least, this is how it
> works on X11.

	Here's my guess: this is a 'quirk' of the PC keyboard firmware.
It is a serious problem for game design. What happens is that
when there are NO keys pressed, and you press any repeating key,
you get a sequence of KEY_DOWN tokens from the keyboard.
If you then press another key, the auto-repeat is switched OFF
for the first key, and on for the second key. If you release
the second key, the first doesn't auto-repeat: 

	11111111111111122222222222222
        ^ press 1  ....^ press 2     ^ release 2  ^ release 1

	aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
	^ press a        ^ press shift


	The _only_ solution is to reprogram the keyboard CPU.
The whole thing is a stupid hangover from DOS: the keyboard
should just send keyup/keydown tokens, and let the OS driver
handle repeats and timing.

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