Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:48:35 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: Input issues - key down with no key up |
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:40:33PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > But for programs which want to monitor a key and know its state > > continuously (this presently includes the software autorepeater, but > > it also includes games), none of the behaviours is right. > > X11 is another example of software that wants to know the state of keys > continuously. And that's not a piece of software to ignore easily.
You are both inventing the situation that games, or X11, ask the kernel for a bitmap of pressed keys. But they don't. The mechanism doesn't even exist.
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