[Virtualacorn-list] Mystery carriage returns

[ATimbrell at aol.com]

In a message dated 06/05/2009 23:48:24 GMT Daylight Time,  
brian.jordan9 at btinternet.com writes:

>> A "stuck" key (i.e. one that autorepeats without being asked)  happens
>> when a key down event is received, but there is no  corresponding key up
>> event.

>> You can often generate  the key up even yourself by hiting (hammer
>> optional) the key that's  "stuck". This adds yet another key down 
>> event, but also should  generate the required key up event. Hopefully
>> this will stop the  auto repeattttttttt.

>> This applied to both real and virtual  machines, and also to a number 
>> of non RISC OS  computers.

>Aaron

>This has been very helpful. This evening  I have had two of these events
>when coming back from the XP desktop to  the full screen RISC OS desktop.
>On both occasions a single prod of the  return key has fixed the problem
>apparently permanently and enabled me to  continue working without any
>need to reboot. Many thanks.
 
I'm glad that's proved helpful, although I am still left wondering
what's causing the problem in the first place (i.e. why RISC OS is
only getting one of the two events). Put of interest do you have
a "special" keyboard (for example with E-mail, Web etc) buttons
on. I am wondering if the Windows keydriver for the keyboard
might be part of the problem.

Aaron