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

Bob Arning arning315 at comcast.net
Tue Nov 15 14:29:39 UTC 2016


Cool. Not only are they reported as a different key, but sometimes you 
just get a keyUp and sometimes you get all 3: down/char/up.


On 11/15/16 9:16 AM, Tobias Pape wrote:
> 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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