[Vm-dev] key-up events missing for some unix machines?

[Eliot Miranda]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:59 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

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> On 04-11-2013, at 5:19 PM, Ian Piumarta <piumarta at speakeasy.net> wrote:
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> > On Nov 4, 2013, at 16:28 , tim Rowledge wrote:
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> >> Interesting. I’m puzzled even more now since I see differences between
> the sqUnixX11.c in the Cog and plain trees, whereas I was until then
> convinced that they used the same platform code… sigh.
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> > The Qwak/Teleplace code is based on an ancient fork of the tree that was
> closed-source for several years while the trunk diverged.  That's why Cog
> still uses Makefiles and not CMake, etc…
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> Hunh. I got the impression from the svn tree that they actually shared
> that part of things.


They do.  platforms/Cross/plugins and platforms/win32/plugins are shared.
 The more sharing the better.  But it's a merge and a fair ammount of work.


> Now I have to try to think why I misunderstood that…
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> > I remember fixing an issue with auto-repeating meta keys a few years
> ago, which might have introduced the issue with n-key rollover and missing
> up events.  I'll take a look (especially promptly if you can provide a
> simple reproducible test case/scenario :-).
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> Trivial test case - fire up the latest Scratch (do the magical apt-get etc
> scratch) and load ‘asteroids’ - which is like haemorrhoids except more
> painful - and use left/right cursor to rotate ye anciente space shippe. For
> me, quite often it will stick with one direction, especially if you hold
> down the key for a while and then let go. clicking or holding the other
> direction will usually make no difference but sometimes  sort of force a
> stand-off and no rotation. *usually* clicking the key for the stuck
> rotation will seem to release it, but not always.
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> In my very latest changes I’m trying out a state recorder attached as a
> HandMorph keyboard listener, but it seems to get flooded and spend a lot of
> time doing not much. I’m thinking it would make more sense for the keyboard
> state to be something maintained in the vm and accessed via a prim anyway.
> We have a lot of code that seems to be doing half the job anyway.
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> >> However, I get the problem on the Pi with both a plain interp and a
> stack vm, so I’m going to have to suspect either a systemic problem or the
> USB.
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> > I don't know if this is related but I've often had problems with X11 and
> the client being one event behind what the user is doing on the server.
>  Even when XSync()s are sprinkled in every conceivable place, some events
> just don't seem to make it into the dispatch loop when they are the last in
> the queue.  A typical symptom is a menu not seeing mouse up after you
> release the button, until you wiggle the cursor to generate some motion
> event pressure behind it.  One thing to look for is whether your missing up
> events appear if you wiggle the mouse immediately after releasing the key.
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> > It's not just Squeak.  I've seen this issue with many X11 programs.  I'd
> suspect something fishy with NDELAY on the connection, but after so many
> years one would expect xlib to be getting that right.
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> X getting it right? Good luck with that one...
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> tim
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best,
Eliot
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