Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] Some keys are duplicated, some don't appear at all!

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:40:03AM -0800, Rob Stoddard wrote:
> I have been using your VNC widget, now I am using it in a second 
> application.  The first is the Telanetix main video conference suite, 
> which you can see on our web page at www.telanetix.com.  I used it to 
> replace the old Tight VNC viewer which we were using up until we started 
> using Fedora Core 8.  FC8 + DPMS + Tight VNC viewer were fighting in 
> ways I cannot begin to explain...  Hence I hacked together a simple 
> viewer using your widget... It was a slight adjustment to your example 
> widget.
> 
> This second one is in a video conference tool for hospitals in 
> Australia.  You see, there is a need for specialists in every town, 
> since every town has an emergency room.  Unfortunately, having those 
> towns stocked with every type of specialist that might be needed would 
> produce an economic nightmare for their socialized medical system, so 
> they want to use video conferencing to get specialist input in areas 
> that don't have the specialist.
> 
> A problem that I am having with the VNC widget is that keystrokes are 
> not being faithfully transmitted.  This was not a problem with my first 
> application, since it is an "interface-less" viewer.   With this current 
> viewer, however, I need to be able to faithfully transmit keystrokes.  
> In a lot of cases, when I hold down shift and hit a key, nothing is 
> transmitted.  Sometimes, when I hit a key, it is doubled or tripled.  I 
> have witnessed this in my current application, but also in the example 
> program.
> 
> The version I am using is the mercurial-pull just after OpenGL support 
> was added.  I understand there has been a lot of work since then...  Has 
> this been fixed?

There was a fix for keystate tracking commited a day ago - please try
with that - the version you have is known broken.

Regards,
Dan.
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