What I was pointing out is that the breakpoint cannot cause the window
focus to change if it is never hit. However, the breakpoint had been hit
previously, and I assume that this prior change in focus caused a change
that prevented to bug. Thanks again for helping fix it.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Leif Theden <[email protected]> wrote:

> As I noted before, the breakpoint causes window focus to change and due to
> some circumstance of the window losing focus, the odd behavior seems to be
> avoided.  The cause of the ALT key bug is related to windows and pyglet not
> correctly handling the ALT key (which will open a window menu bar in some
> situations): when the alt key is pressed, windows sends a special event to
> pyglet.  The event is handled but the return value back to windows was
> never correct (source of the bug).  The default behavior in this case is to
> display a window menu bar, which windows attempts to do, but it is not
> implemented in pyglet and this condition puts the window and pyglet's event
> queue into an undefined state, and causes some events to be dropped. In
> this case there events are key presses/releases.  Nothing cosmic about it.
> Please see the link I previously posted for more information.
>
>
> On Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 12:45:49 PM UTC-5, pyglet_has_bugs wrote:
>>
>> Thank you very much for your thorough reply. Your guess about the
>> breakpoints doesn't make sense to me, because the order of causality does
>> not flow in that order. When my program is in a state in which pressing A
>> will not trigger a key press event (because I've just pressed and released
>> ALT), and I press A, then no key pressed event fires--unless there is a
>> break point in on_key_press. So you see, the breakpoint can only be hit if
>> the code *has already performed correctly in the place that it normally
>> fails*. This indicates to me that something horrible is going on. I am
>> amazed.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Leif Theden <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I fixed it a while ago, but the fix was never merged.  Tonight I applied
>>> an old patch I made and made a pull request.  It may be a few days until
>>> this is fixed in bitbucket. In the mean time, don't assign anything to the
>>> ALT key.  This bug has been known for a long time, but only affects windows
>>> users, and is related to the ALT key, which not many people use anyway.
>>>
>>> I can't say how the breakpoints affects it for certain, but my guess is
>>> that the breakpoints are causing the pyglet window to lose focus, which
>>> interferes with key events in windows, and those side effects don't cause
>>> the behavior that was causing erratic input after pressing ALT.  A debugger
>>> should never cause functions to work differently.  In this case it is more
>>> related to the windows window manager more than anything.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 8:54:06 PM UTC-7, pyglet_has_bugs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wow, so this has been known for a while, and you just finally fixed it?
>>>> Just for me? :o :D
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 8:31:02 PM UTC-4, Leif Theden wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Please, your nick 'pyglet_has_bugs' is a bit excessive; 99.999%
>>>>> software projects have bugs.  In any case, thank you for the detailed bug
>>>>> report.  In the future please submit bug reports to
>>>>> https://bitbucket.org/pyglet/pyglet/issues.  Finally, I've fixed the
>>>>> problem on my branch and submitted a pull request.
>>>>>
>>>>> In case anyone is interested, the issue is documented here:
>>>>> https://code.google.com/p/pyglet/issues/detail?id=462&q=leif
>>>>> &colspec=ID%20Stars%20Type%20Status%20OpSys%20Modified%20Summary
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 5:19:02 PM UTC-5, pyglet_has_bugs wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Someone on reddit.com/r/learnpython says they couldn't reproduce the
>>>>>> bug with Pyglet 1.2.2 and Python 3 on Linux.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://redd.it/2zqtyf
>>>>>>
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