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. > Does this ring a bell? > > - Martin > > >
