[Virtualacorn-list] Mystery carriage returns

[Brian Jordan]

On 05 May, Jeremy Nicoll - virtualacorn
<jn.ml.vac.83 at wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:
> Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> > 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.

> Presumably you return to the RO desktop using your host OS to select
> the VRPC application window.
Correct.

> But before that I am guessing that you were in VRPC and somehow
> signalled that you want to go to the host OS.  I wonder if something's
> happening as you leave VRPC that's perhaps not properly being
> set/cleaned-up, so that when you return there it causes a problem.
Your guess is also correct.

> What you describe doesn't sound like one rogue CR, but instead a
> never-ending supply of them, or possibly a mouse-scroll operation that's
> sending lots of scroll-downs?
On reflection, this is of course the case, the effect being the same as
holding down the CR key.

> I wonder if it's a coincidence that the VRPC keyboard allows one to use
> Alt-CR as a windows-mouse-caret / windowed/fullscreen toggle?  Does the
> problem happen if you run VRPC non-fullscreen?
I haven't had time to experiment with this yet, but I certainly shall
over the next few days. Thanks for the thought.

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Brian Jordan
>From somewhere in North Hampshire. England. UK.
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