Re: [fpc-devel] patch to call DoneKeyboard in the exitproc of the drivers unit

2009-08-23 Thread Nikolay Nikolov

On 08/16/2009 04:29 PM, Daniël Mantione wrote:
I can see the issue with abnormal program exits, but I disabled it 
because calling it twice had unintended effects. So we need to verify 
we don't break anything.

Well, I can think of 2 thing that could go wrong:

- DoneKeyboard is called _after_ DoneVideo (not before) in 
TApplication.Done. I'm not sure if the order matters. We can switch them 
in the Drivers unit ExitProc also.
- If DoneKeyboard blows up with a run time error, during a normal 
TApplication.Done call, then the ExitProc of the Drivers unit will call 
DoneKeyboard again, which in turn will call SysDoneKeyboard again, 
because the previous SysDoneKeyboard didn't finish and the 
KeyboardInitialized flag wasn't set to false. I don't know if this might 
have unintended side effects. This is all in rtl/inc/keyboard.inc:


procedure DoneKeyboard;

begin

  If KeyboardInitialized then

begin

If Assigned(CurrentKeyBoardDriver.DoneDriver) Then

  CurrentKeyBoardDriver.DoneDriver();

KeyboardInitialized:=False;

end;

end;


If that's the case, we can add a flag KeyboardInitialized in Drivers, 
add a check inside Drivers.DoneKeyboard and set it to false _before_ the 
actual call to Keyboard.DoneKeyboard.

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Re: [fpc-devel] patch to call DoneKeyboard in the exitproc of the drivers unit

2009-08-16 Thread Daniël Mantione



Op Sun, 16 Aug 2009, schreef Nikolay Nikolov:


On 08/16/2009 03:22 PM, Daniël Mantione wrote:



Op Sun, 16 Aug 2009, schreef Jonas Maebe:



On 16 Aug 2009, at 12:15, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:

Does anyone have an idea why the call to DoneKeyboard was previously 
commented? It leaves the keyboard in a bad state if the IDE crashes.


It was changed in revision 3443, whose log message says:

r3443 | daniel | 2006-05-07 00:57:20 +0200 (Sun, 07 May 2006) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
 M /trunk/fv/app.pas
 M /trunk/fv/drivers.pas
 M /trunk/fv/validate.pas
 M /trunk/ide/fp.pas
 M /trunk/ide/fpide.pas

* Video and keyboard initialization spaghetti organized and hopefully 
fixed.

- Remove useless function from validate.pas

Maybe Daniel knows.


In Turbo Vision, it is the task of Tapplication to initialize drivers and 
the task of Tprogram to detect how it was initialized. This was totally 
messed up; i.e. Tprogram.initscreen is supposed to detect the current 
screen, but people had inserted code into it that did change the screen, so 
they also invented a donescreen. This caused a lot of bugs inside FV 
applications.


With this patch, I brought things back as they should be, all 
intialization/finalization back to Tapplication and Tprogram just detects 
how things are initialized.
This is all cool, but IMHO DoneKeyboard should also be called in the ExitProc 
to clean things up in case a runtime error occurs, since then the 
TApplication destructor isn't (usually) called. Is there a reason not to do 
that? Calling DoneKeyboard twice on normal exit should be safe, as it checks 
a flag and does nothing when you call it the second time.


I can see the issue with abnormal program exits, but I disabled it 
because calling it twice had unintended effects. So we need to verify we 
don't break anything.


Daniël
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Re: [fpc-devel] patch to call DoneKeyboard in the exitproc of the drivers unit

2009-08-16 Thread Nikolay Nikolov

On 08/16/2009 03:22 PM, Daniël Mantione wrote:



Op Sun, 16 Aug 2009, schreef Jonas Maebe:



On 16 Aug 2009, at 12:15, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:

Does anyone have an idea why the call to DoneKeyboard was previously 
commented? It leaves the keyboard in a bad state if the IDE crashes.


It was changed in revision 3443, whose log message says:

r3443 | daniel | 2006-05-07 00:57:20 +0200 (Sun, 07 May 2006) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
 M /trunk/fv/app.pas
 M /trunk/fv/drivers.pas
 M /trunk/fv/validate.pas
 M /trunk/ide/fp.pas
 M /trunk/ide/fpide.pas

* Video and keyboard initialization spaghetti organized and hopefully 
fixed.

- Remove useless function from validate.pas

Maybe Daniel knows.


In Turbo Vision, it is the task of Tapplication to initialize drivers 
and the task of Tprogram to detect how it was initialized. This was 
totally messed up; i.e. Tprogram.initscreen is supposed to detect the 
current screen, but people had inserted code into it that did change 
the screen, so they also invented a donescreen. This caused a lot of 
bugs inside FV applications.


With this patch, I brought things back as they should be, all 
intialization/finalization back to Tapplication and Tprogram just 
detects how things are initialized.
This is all cool, but IMHO DoneKeyboard should also be called in the 
ExitProc to clean things up in case a runtime error occurs, since then 
the TApplication destructor isn't (usually) called. Is there a reason 
not to do that? Calling DoneKeyboard twice on normal exit should be 
safe, as it checks a flag and does nothing when you call it the second time.

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Re: [fpc-devel] patch to call DoneKeyboard in the exitproc of the drivers unit

2009-08-16 Thread Daniël Mantione



Op Sun, 16 Aug 2009, schreef Jonas Maebe:



On 16 Aug 2009, at 12:15, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:

Does anyone have an idea why the call to DoneKeyboard was previously 
commented? It leaves the keyboard in a bad state if the IDE crashes.


It was changed in revision 3443, whose log message says:

r3443 | daniel | 2006-05-07 00:57:20 +0200 (Sun, 07 May 2006) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
 M /trunk/fv/app.pas
 M /trunk/fv/drivers.pas
 M /trunk/fv/validate.pas
 M /trunk/ide/fp.pas
 M /trunk/ide/fpide.pas

* Video and keyboard initialization spaghetti organized and hopefully fixed.
- Remove useless function from validate.pas

Maybe Daniel knows.


In Turbo Vision, it is the task of Tapplication to initialize drivers and 
the task of Tprogram to detect how it was initialized. This was totally 
messed up; i.e. Tprogram.initscreen is supposed to detect the current 
screen, but people had inserted code into it that did change the screen, 
so they also invented a donescreen. This caused a lot of bugs inside FV 
applications.


With this patch, I brought things back as they should be, all 
intialization/finalization back to Tapplication and Tprogram just detects 
how things are initialized.


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Re: [fpc-devel] patch to call DoneKeyboard in the exitproc of the drivers unit

2009-08-16 Thread Jonas Maebe


On 16 Aug 2009, at 12:15, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:

Does anyone have an idea why the call to DoneKeyboard was previously  
commented? It leaves the keyboard in a bad state if the IDE crashes.


It was changed in revision 3443, whose log message says:

r3443 | daniel | 2006-05-07 00:57:20 +0200 (Sun, 07 May 2006) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
   M /trunk/fv/app.pas
   M /trunk/fv/drivers.pas
   M /trunk/fv/validate.pas
   M /trunk/ide/fp.pas
   M /trunk/ide/fpide.pas

  * Video and keyboard initialization spaghetti organized and  
hopefully fixed.

  - Remove useless function from validate.pas


Maybe Daniel knows.


Jonas
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