[squeak-dev] Did the control key change somewhere along the way?

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Tue Nov 15 14:16:24 UTC 2016


Hi Bob,
On 15.11.2016, at 13:28, Bob Arning <arning315 at comcast.net> wrote:

> The VM I was using refused to open an image it had saved, so I tried getting a newer VM. That solved the image open problem, but control keys no longer work as they once did. Any thoughts on restoring old behavior? (decades of muscle memory at stake ;-))
> 
> control key works in:
> 
> Virtual Machine
> ---------------
> /Users/bob/squeak/FMP5/Squeak-5.0-All-in-One.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak
> Croquet Closure Cog[Spur] VM [CoInterpreterPrimitives VMMaker.oscog-eem.1405] 5.0
> Mac OS X built on Jul  6 2015 19:01:28 UTC Compiler: 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)
> platform sources revision VM: r3397 http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog Date: 2015-07-06 11:56:39 -0700 Plugins: r3347 http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/platforms/Cross/plugins
> CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.1405 uuid: 7aff388a-73ba-4202-bb5a-72b0759ff46b Jul  6 2015
> StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker.oscog-eem.1401 uuid: 036f0933-639a-49dd-8a1d-a03bcdcb0a0a Jul  6 2015
> 
> control key does not work in:
> 
> Virtual Machine
> ---------------
> /Users/bob/squeak/Squeak5.1-16548-32bit copy.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak
> Croquet Closure Cog[Spur] VM [CoInterpreterPrimitives VMMaker.oscog-cb.1919] 32 bit
> Mac OS X built on Aug 17 2016 18:59:49 UTC Compiler: 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.54)
> platform sources revision VM: 201608171728 https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.git $ Date: Wed Aug 17 10:28:01 2016 -0700 $ Plugins: 201608171728 https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.git $
> CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-cb.1919 uuid: 00a8dd2a-bc8d-4552-b400-be781c8aabec Aug 17 2016
> StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker.oscog-cb.1919 uuid: 00a8dd2a-bc8d-4552-b400-be781c8aabec Aug 17 2016
> 
> 


the 5.1 VM on osx is Cocoa-Based and still has a few bugs regarding
event handling. It turns out that some control-key combinations are
reported wrongly. For example, Ctrl-TAB is reported as Ctrl-0.
Fixes are still in the work.

Best regards
	-Tobias




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