Re: [MiNT] Keyboard handler

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 20:38 +0300, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> Am 22.04.2010, 20:56 Uhr, schrieb Miro Kropacek <miro.kropacek@gmail.com>:
> 
> > old Eiffel) on newer FreeMiNT kernels plus we all know some issues with
> > keyboard handler generally (insert key in some applications, Texel and  
> > Kobol
> > from what I remember), what about reverting that new keyboard handler to
> 
> I've fixed that in my kernel (about a year ago).

You've fixed the keyboard handler already ???

If so, is there some isolated patch we can bring into the trunk to
test ?

> > IIRC, that handler was one of the last Draco's works, I clearly remember
> 
> I thought it was Adam Klobukowski (or similar)?
> 
> > when he included it into source tree, Insert key in Kobold + some other
> > things in Aniplayer stopped to work, i.e. it wasn't totally bug-free. And
> 
> Aniplayer works fine here.
> 
> > since we know everything (Eiffel included) works well in plain TOS and
> 
> That will surely get fixed: Alan is at it already, and I'm also  
> approaching to it.
> 
> > older
> > (1.15) kernels... it seems like good idea to me. What do you think?
> 
> This used the ROM-handler. I don't know if it's this handler, but MiNT  
> 1.17 runs much more stable than 1.15. It just needs some adjustment.
> 
> But it should be possible to configure MiNT to use the ROM-keyboard  
> instead (like on Milan if I'm not wrong).

That's an option I tried, but it didn't seem to work for me. But there
does seem to be some corresponding assembly code that needs tweaking
too.

Alan.