[Vm-dev] INFO REQUEST: key & mouse state machine / API

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Ken,

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 9:02 AM <ken.dickey at whidbey.com> wrote:

>
>
> > Am Fr., 27. Dez. 2019 um 23:29 Uhr schrieb Nicolas Cellier <
> > nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
>
> > Currently, we have to generate:
> > - an EventKeyDown at each keydown, and at each repeat
>
> BTW, I built current (Linux/Arm64) with DEBUG_MOUSE_EVENT and
> DEBUG_KEYBOARD_EVENT.
>
> Most unexpected results.
>
> E.g. for every single up-or-down 'click' on the mouse wheel, I see three
> (count 'em 3) events (DOWN/Key/UP).
>
> I was expecting to see a single event.
>
> Is there a deep reason against a single composite report per wheel
> 'click' ?
>
> I understand about history, but ..
>

AFAIA Ian Piumarta wrote the fbdev code and I've not seen him touch it for
years.  We are living in the garden of our predecessors.  Machetes may be
necessary from time to time ;-)  That, and climbing a step ladder to look
over the underbrush...

_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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