On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 01:51:40PM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:38:19PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >> Martin Vermeer wrote: > >>> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:58:59AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >>>> Martin Vermeer wrote: > >>> ... > >>> > >>>>>>> Another scenario: I am typing on my Nokia 770 Internet tablet > >>>>>>> over a > >>>>>>> vnc connection. It does 'word completion', which is like very > >>>>>>> fast typing... and indeed, in LyX 1.4 characters get lost :-( > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> Fine, this is a case I haven't realized. > >>>>>> Here it depends on the value isAutoRepeat() returns. > >>>>>> When it is true it is possible that the keys are lost, > >>>>>> but I assume that for lyx/Qt the word completion looks > >>>>>> like a user input, then it should work. > >>>>> Eh, what I meant was that _even without your patch_ LyX is > >>>>> dropping characters on the floor. Not good. > >>>> Maybe this tablet uses Input Methods? In which case, 1.5 will be > >>>> better here. Try it. > >>> I did, and it is even worse, in an amusing way: if I type 'app', > >>> the > >>> Nokia offers 'ropriate' and what gets inserted into LyX is > >>> 'aprropiate' -- the r has changed place ?!? Repeatable. Every time > >>> I try. But when inserting into vim over ssh, e.g., (what I am > >>> doing now) > >>> this does not happen. > >>> > >>> BTW what do you mean by 'input methods? Here I have a choice of > >>> virtual > >>> keyboard and handwriting recognition. How is that relevant? > >> Input methods are used in the CJK world to help the writing. The > >> technique is very similar to autocompletion method. Try '-dbg key' > >> to see if it used. If yes, you should see things like > >> "preeditString = xxx" and "commitString = xxx". > > > > Did that; not seeing them -- but see below. > > > >> Abdel. > >> > >> Maybe you could try to put some > > > > Yes, maybe I could... instead, I used '-dbg key' and entered > > the strings 'appropriate' and 'laboratories' into an empty file. > > by typing 'app' and 'lab' + completions. > > > > What I got was 'apprropiate' and 'laboorraties'. The letters > > that are present in duplicate in the completion string, are moved > > to the front. Inspecting the debug output (attached) shows, that these > > duplicate letters have 'isAutoRepeat=1' set... > > > > So we can't use isAutoRepeat also not hasPendingEvents. Best idea > I have is to revert.
Not too quick... this was before your patch (several days since last svn update) - Martin
