[Virtualacorn-list] Mystery carriage returns

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

On 7 May at 13:02, ATimbrell at aol.com wrote:

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

<Next was written by Aaron but attribution snipped>
> > >
> > > 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.

May I report that I have seen the same problem on an Iyonix but that was
through a KVM and on a VARPC on a Mac with no KVM, so I doubt that a
Windows keydriver is the sole cause?

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                           tim at powys.org
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