[PD] Re: polyphonic ? key, keyup setup question

[padawan12]

Cheers Roman, that clears up the different behaviour
in Steffens patch and something to be aware of in the
future too.

I guess this is why we should generally favour [hid].

thanks,
andy


On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:12:40 +0200
Roman Haefeli <reduzierer at yahoo.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 06:35 +0100, padawan12 wrote:
> 
> > Any idea why? Does Windows send a different
> > event for a real key-up than a repeat?
> 
> [key]/[keyup]/[keyname] do *NOT* behave the same on linux and on windows
> (don't know about OSX).
> 
> [keyname]'s left inlet on linux,when a key is pressed:
> 
> 1..........01..01..01..01..01..01..01..01..01..01
> 
> the time between 0 and 1 is [at least on my two linux boxes] very
> short.. about 3ms. this makes it possible to skip a 0-1 pair with a
> delay: if a 0 is followed by a 1 within lets say 10ms, both are skipped.
> this adds a little delay (10ms) to the release event, though.
> 
> 
> the same on windows:
> 
> 1..........1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1
> 
> that also means, that [keyup] doesn't repeat on windows, but it does on
> linux, whereas [key] repeats on both.
> 
> roman
> 
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