>1) I found the same instability that I had on the duo
Will test specifically for that...
>2) Double-clicking in the Finder is improved somewhat, but still quite
> unreliable (except on my duo, of course...)
> I very strongly suspect this is *not* a CursorDevice debouncing
> problem, as was originally suggested (after all, double-clicks seem
> to work elsewhere), but is actually because of the way that the
> Finder 'locks up' the machine for a fraction of a second after a
> click on an icon (after some testing I realised the length of time
> is dependent on the 'double-click' time set in the Mouse control
> panel - this suggests that the Finder is taking over monitoring of
> the mouse after a mouse-down so that it can check for various
> things like contextual menus etc - it might be worth trying with
> this switched off to see if the problem persists).
Interesting - I find it fairly unreliable too, but it worked "well enough"
from WinVNC. I'll try fiddling with some code, and see if I can get it to
give extra time back to the system in between mouse button transitions,
which should help if the Finder really is doing it's own double-click
handling.
>3) With the removal of the interrupt code that allowed receiving of
> information at interrupt time, there are a few minor oddities with
> regard to cursor tracking on slower Macs (for example, with the
> 'drag-selection' of icons - the 'elastic-band' sometimes does not
> appear when it should).
Again, interesting - though might be coupled more to System version than
CPU speed, since I can only use 9.0.4 on my spanking new PowerBook.
Probably worth my testing on System 7.5.5.
>1) Apart from the above problem (which only seems to happen when the
> server app is frontmost) the alpha 3 release does appear to be very
> robust.
>
>2) The encoding bugs have been dealt with (the background problem and
> the occasional rect errors, as well as CoRRE now being correctly
> activated).
>
>3) The hardware cursor looks like it is working well.
Good, although it will only display the B&W version of a cursor (I can't
figure out how to get an unpacked version of the colour one) which
shouldn't be a massive problem for most users.
>Of course, the drag problem remains (are you getting anywhere with
>that, Jonathan?) with the standard vncPatches.
I won't get anywhere with it until I can figure out how to call a
UniversalProcPtr from 68k assembler. Maybe you could help with that...
>With regard to an alpha 3 version of vncPatches68k, I have completed
>a version, but I'm finding a rather odd case where it occasionally
>misses some updates - you have to wipe across with the cursor to see
>it. I don't know why this should be (yet) since the coding for the
>update capturing (and buffering etc) has not changed since alpha 1.
Maybe your (or my) re-entrancy code needs updating so that it cannot
attempt to send updates to the server during sending of an update. That's
the only situation I can think of in my code where corruption of the update
region could occur.
>There's also some anomalous problems I've been having with the
>modifier keys (the shift key in particular - rather odd, again, but
>I suspect it has to do with the way that the server app and the
>patches are interacting together on the low level keymapping stuff).
I put in the overwriting-low-memory patch you suggested, so it is no longer
needed in your patches. Has this been taken into account?
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