[PD-dev] autorepeat with [key], [keyup], and [keyname]
Mathieu Bouchard
matju at sympatico.ca
Sun Nov 28 02:29:28 CET 2004
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> > How then can you detect a key being held down in X? I mean it would
> > be possible by tracking the auto-repeated values, but that seems
> > needlessly complicated.
>
> There is a way to turn off autorepeat for all keys (xset r off) or on a
> key-by-key basis (eg: xset -r 42)
>
> But that is a global setting for the xserver, it's not on a
> window-per-window basis.
>
> The only way to make it local is to register for Enter/Leave events and
> change the key settings every time and keep a backup of the default
> settings.
>
> This is AFAIK. I've read the X11 spec a few years ago; I may have
> forgotten some segments of it.
woops, i had deleted the first paragraph i wrote, and forgot to rewrite
it. It read pretty much like this:
If you don't want to disable autorepeat, then you would have to track the
auto-repeated values, which requires matching a KeyRelease with a
subsequent KeyPress of the same timestamp, so a real KeyRelease can only
be confirmed after you have received a message with a later timestamp
(!!!) or use some kind of timeout that may or may not work (e.g. if remote
X11 is in use and there's a bit of lag on the network). So yes it's
complicated to do it right.
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