[Virtualacorn-list] Mystery carriage returns

[Barry Punchard]

--- On Tue, 5/5/09, Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim at powys.org> wrote:

From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim at powys.org>
Subject: Re: [Virtualacorn-list] Mystery carriage returns
To: Virtualacorn-list at riscository.co.uk
Date: Tuesday, 5 May, 2009, 4:25 PM

On 5 May at 15:19, Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> One of the benefits of VA is the ease with which I can swap in and out
> of my Virtual desktop to my Windows XP desktop. (Although I would
> prefer to use RISC OS all of the time I live in a world where from
> time to time I need to use software under Windows in particular to
> check whether my web sites display correctly on Firefox etc.) The only
> problem I have with this is that /sometimes/ on returning to the RISC
> OS desktop I find an uncontrollable carriage return which always
> requires a reboot. By this I mean that on opening eg a Zap or Ovation
> Pro window the caret rushes to the bottom of the page and the window
> then continues to scroll downwards at high speed. A series of
<Escape>
> presses temporarily fixes the problem but it then lies in wait ready
> to pounce again just as I am doing something important.

I have occasionally seen a key go into auto-repeat and refuse all
blandishments to stop.  So have to reboot.

> I have swapped programs in and out on both sides and am now trying a
> third keyboard in case the problem is hardware related. Aaron was
> unable to shed any light on the forum so I am asking here if anyone
> else has seen this and if so have you fixed it?

Aaron has sent me an update to deal with keyboard freezings but I have
chickened out of trying it in case it wrecks my existing usable, though
not entirely stable, set-up.

I have backups onto an external disc but I wonder if there is a way of
setting up a parallel environment for testing?  (VARPC 1.6.6 with RISC
OS 6.14.)Tim________Yes, I've had this too, quite frequently on VRPC-SE RISCOS 4.02under Windows XP. It definitely isn't the keyboard as rebootingVRPC fixes it without rebooting windows or physically moving any keys.Also the doc gets auto saved with all the additional feeds.(Sorry about the formatting - stupid online yahoo formatting).Barry