Ben Coman
Ben Coman
> I don't understand why this change was made ([code link for more context](https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/8de71483aaeb7975cc3f59ef136aa3b11b6c0066/platforms/unix/vm-display-X11/sqUnixX11.c#L2065-L2071)) ``` 2065 if (charCode >= 1 && charCode = XK_a && keysym = XK_A && keysym...
Paraphasing http://forum.world.st/Linux-Squeak-VM-X11-keyboard-changes-td5099584.html > kksubbu: EventSensor classPool associationAt: #KeyDecodeTable is different between the good and bad VM. The good one has 184 entries while the bad one has only 16 entries...
Paraphasing http://forum.world.st/Windows-cog-vm-Keyboard-events-related-about-keycode-mapping-td4330359.html > **guillep:** I was playing to add Function Key support in the windows vm (yep, always the same :P), and looking at the code, I saw this in...
Side comment 1 from http://forum.world.st/Windows-cog-vm-Keyboard-events-related-about-keycode-mapping-td4330359.html > @jvuletich: On the mac, when control or command are pressed, for any keystroke the unshifted code is returned, even if shift is pressed. For...
Side comment 2 from http://forum.world.st/Windows-cog-vm-Keyboard-events-related-about-keycode-mapping-td4330359.html > @jvuletich: There is a completely separated issue, and it happens both in Windows and Mac. Here, [ctrl] + [an alphabetic key] substracts 64 from...
HOLD this for the moment. I'm developing another idea to demonstrate shortly.
Just for interest, here are some performance comparisons of various time sources - [faster equivalent of gettimeofday](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6498972/faster-equivalent-of-gettimeofday) - [overview of different timers on linux and OSX](http://fwyzard.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/overview-of-different-timers-on-linux.html) - [drwilco timebench](https://gist.github.com/drwilco/5338577) shows...
Keep in mind the microsecond clock on Windows only has millisecond resolution. We should improve that also. Per Henrik's report running this on Windows... | col | col := Array...
Maybe(?) faster calls via... http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/vdso.7.html See "Architecture Specific Notes"
Consider timezone changes due to daylight savings... http://forum.world.st/Should-a-long-running-image-notice-daylight-saving-tp4940956.html