Nice that it works for your purpose. It's wrong, however.

The keycodes in down and up events really should match. And they should refer to raw keys. E.g., you should get the same keycode for X and Shift-X (though for Shift-A you would get additional Shift-Down and Shift-Up events).

I am sure this was working at some point. So we just need to find out where along the way it got broken.

I just took a look using a 4.2 Mac VM. And lo and behold, the VM *does* work, it produces the expected key down/up codes. Which btw are Apple's "Virtual Keycodes", see e.g. http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-05-22/virtual-key-codes

However, Morphic event handling was broken when the keyboard interpreter was added. That must be used only for stroke events, not for up/down events. I just fixed that in trunk. And it works! Not bad for a two-line fix.

And trying that Morphic fix on a Cog VM works fine. So, no VM change needed. All is good. (Well, could be better, like reporting shift-up/down too, but at least most keys are working)

Have fun!

- Bert -

On 29.09.2011, at 04:52, Lawson English wrote:

> So, based on guesswork and what little I understood of various comments that John Mcintosh and others have said in previous threads about the keydown/keyup issue I've been having with Mac OS X 10.6.8, I managed to patch a Cog VM to workaround the issue.
> 
> I just modified the calls to enterKeystroke()  for keydown and keyup to use the same parameters as for a keystroke event, when called from within the function recordKeyboardEventCarbon().
> 
> Now, keydown events report the same keyvalue as the keystroke event. Keyup events report what appears to be the raw keyscan code. Why it works as it does, precisely, I'm not sure, but it is enough  for me to track when a spaceship is accelerated by the arrow keys and gives sufficient info in the keyup event for me to figure out how long a given key has been pressed when multiple keys are held down (I think). [My first VM patch -wheeee!]
> 
> The test code below now generates:  :
> 
> #(2 100501 2 2 0 0 0 1)
> #(2 102403 28 1 0 0 0 1)  "keydown"
> #(2 102403 28 0 0 28 0 1) "keystroke"
> #(2 102500 123 2 0 0 0 1) "keyup"
> #(2 103139 30 1 0 0 0 1)
> #(2 103139 30 0 0 30 0 1)
> #(2 103220 126 2 0 0 0 1)
> #(2 103779 29 1 0 0 0 1)
> #(2 103779 29 0 0 29 0 1)
> #(2 103868 124 2 0 0 0 1)
> #(2 104683 31 1 0 0 0 1)
> #(2 104683 31 0 0 31 0 1)
> #(2 104756 125 2 0 0 0 1)
> #(2 105771 32 1 0 0 0 1)
> #(2 105771 32 0 0 32 0 1)
> #(2 105884 49 2 0 0 0 1)
> #(2 111772 120 1 0 0 0 1)
> 
> On 9/23/11 8:05 PM, Lawson English wrote:
>> Simpler code:
>> 
>> http://paste.lisp.org/display/124831
>> 
>> evoke via the following in a workspace
>> 
>> a := (MyNewMorph new) openInWorld.
>> a doit.
>> 
>> typing 'x' stops the loop
>> 
>> a eventBuffer do: [:each| each ifNotNil: [Transcript show: each;cr]].
>> 
>> Partial results. Note that the keyDown and KeyUp events have no valid data associated with them. At this point, I would say its definitely a VM issue (either that, or Mac OS X doesn't include the data, period, which seems odd).
>> 
>> #(1 11688796 358 202 0 0 0 1)
>> #(2 11688821 2 2 0 0 0 1)
>> #(2 11689589 2 1 0 0 0 1)
>> #(2 11689589 100 0 0 100 0 1)
>> #(2 11690028 2 2 0 0 0 1)
>> #(2 11690381 2 1 0 0 0 1)
>> #(2 11690381 100 0 0 100 0 1)
>> #(2 11690604 2 2 0 0 0 1)
>> #(2 11690907 2 1 0 0 0 1)
>> #(2 11690907 100 0 0 100 0 1)
>> #(2 11691092 2 2 0 0 0 1)
>> #(2 11691284 2 1 0 0 0 1)
>> #(2 11691284 100 0 0 100 0 1)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Lawson
>> 
>> 
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