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

[Rob Stoddard <rstoddard telanetix com>]

I just downloaded the most recent copy on mercurial, and it fixes a lot 
of the problem that I was having.  Unfortunately, it still doesn't 
transmit shift+key inputs.

Thanks

Rob Stoddard



Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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.
>