[PD] HID double event bug

[James Dunn]

fromJames Dunn <james at 4thharmonic.com>toAndrew Faraday <jbturgid at hotmail.com
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date15 June 2010 13:52subjectRe: [PD] HID double event bugmailed-by
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Thanks for the reply. This isn't switch contact bounce as every key
consistently generates two events for each key pressed down and for each key
released. There are certainly ways around it in a patch but I was wondering
if this was a bug that could be fixed?

James

On 15 June 2010 12:48, Andrew Faraday <jbturgid at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  I understand it's called a debounce. Not sure precisely what's going on.
> But if you want to make sure only one gets through I always use a [sel 1] or
> [sel 0]. or of course [sel 0 1] followed by [del 10] which only accepts
> bangs, and delays the output by 10 milliseconds, which you won't notice. But
> when it recieves a bang before the previous one has outputted it restarts
> the sequence, result, only one message on each key on or key off.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:16:42 +0100
> From: james at 4thharmonic.com
> To: pd-list at iem.at
> Subject: [PD] HID double event bug
>
>
> I filed a bug report some time ago here:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3002665&group_id=55736&atid=478070
> Just tested this with Pd version 0.42.5-extended-rc2 on Ubuntu 10.04 and
> it's the same. Basically I get two events for each key press like this:
>
> [hid] opened device 4 (/dev/input/event4): AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
> print: key key_space 1
> print: key key_space 1
> print: key key_space 0
> print: key key_space 0
>
> Thought I'd mention here too as surely this is a bug? Not a major problem,
> but it means I always need an [alternate] object or similar. This then
> became a problem when working on a patch for two note chords when the key
> commands do not always arrive in the same order and some notes would stay
> on.
>
> James
>
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