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keith1y

caps lock introduces funny menu behaviour

Is this a known problem?

When caps lock is on, all pop up menus refuse to accept selections. When
I click on "No" a second green "Red on Green "No" appears next to the
first, and neither accept the click, leaving me stuck.

I am running 3.8-6665 and vm

3.9-7 #1 Fri May 12 11:30:30 CEST 2006 gcc 3.3.5
Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005 [latest update: #7021]
Linux altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk 2.6.8-2-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 16 12:08:30
UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
default plugin location: /usr/lib/squeak/3.9-7/*.so

Keith

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Tom Phoenix

Re: caps lock introduces funny menu behaviour

On 8/3/06, Keith Hodges <[hidden email]> wrote:

> When caps lock is on, all pop up menus refuse to accept selections. When
> I click on "No" a second green "Red on Green "No" appears next to the
> first, and neither accept the click, leaving me stuck.

It sounds as if something somewhere thinks you're holding "shift",
since that's what I have to do to replicate this behavior. Good luck
in tracking it down!

--Tom Phoenix

keith1y

Re: caps lock introduces funny menu behaviour

Tom Phoenix wrote:

> On 8/3/06, Keith Hodges <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> When caps lock is on, all pop up menus refuse to accept selections. When
>> I click on "No" a second green "Red on Green "No" appears next to the
>> first, and neither accept the click, leaving me stuck.
>
> It sounds as if something somewhere thinks you're holding "shift",
> since that's what I have to do to replicate this behavior. Good luck
> in tracking it down!
>
> --Tom Phoenix
>

Ah, right I think the "caps-lock" = "holding down shift" behaviour is a
known bug in the unix vm - it is on Mantis. But I do wonder what is this
behaviour for?

thanks for the prompt reply

keith

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Milan Zimmermann-2

Re: caps lock introduces funny menu behaviour

In reply to this post by keith1y

Keith,

This sounds like a problem I reported about 2 years ago:

http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=565

It is now closed, I believe at the time of closing I tried and it seemed the
problem has gone away with the 3.9 VM:

======================
VM Version:
mzimmermann@home-server:~/dev/smalltalk/squeak/3.9/MathMorphs> squeak -version
3.9-7 #5 Mon Apr 24 20:07:28 PDT 2006 gcc 3.3.5
Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005 [latest update: #7021]
Linux vps.piumarta.com 2.4.20-021stab028.18.777-enterprise #1 SMP Wed Sep 14
19:34:46 MSD 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
default plugin location: /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-7/*.so
======================

I just came after >3 weeks and have little time, but I plan to double-check as
it seems you have the same problem.

Milan

On 2006 August 3 20:53, Keith Hodges wrote:

> Is this a known problem?
>
> When caps lock is on, all pop up menus refuse to accept selections. When
> I click on "No" a second green "Red on Green "No" appears next to the
> first, and neither accept the click, leaving me stuck.
>
> I am running 3.8-6665 and vm
>
> 3.9-7 #1 Fri May 12 11:30:30 CEST 2006 gcc 3.3.5
> Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005 [latest update: #7021]
> Linux altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk 2.6.8-2-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 16 12:08:30
> UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
> default plugin location: /usr/lib/squeak/3.9-7/*.so
>
> Keith
>
>
>
>
> ___________________________________________________________
> All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and
> ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

Yann Monclair-2

Re: caps lock introduces funny menu behaviour

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I experience similar problems on mac (vm 3.9-7)

Yann

On Aug 12, 2006, at 8:04 PM, Milan Zimmermann wrote:

> Keith,
>
> This sounds like a problem I reported about 2 years ago:
>
> http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=565
>
> It is now closed, I believe at the time of closing I tried and it
> seemed the
> problem has gone away with the 3.9 VM:
>
> ======================
> VM Version:
> mzimmermann@home-server:~/dev/smalltalk/squeak/3.9/MathMorphs>
> squeak -version
> 3.9-7 #5 Mon Apr 24 20:07:28 PDT 2006 gcc 3.3.5
> Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005 [latest update: #7021]
> Linux vps.piumarta.com 2.4.20-021stab028.18.777-enterprise #1 SMP
> Wed Sep 14
> 19:34:46 MSD 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
> default plugin location: /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-7/*.so
> ======================
>
> I just came after >3 weeks and have little time, but I plan to
> double-check as
> it seems you have the same problem.
>
> Milan
>
> On 2006 August 3 20:53, Keith Hodges wrote:
>> Is this a known problem?
>>
>> When caps lock is on, all pop up menus refuse to accept
>> selections. When
>> I click on "No" a second green "Red on Green "No" appears next to the
>> first, and neither accept the click, leaving me stuck.
>>
>> I am running 3.8-6665 and vm
>>
>> 3.9-7 #1 Fri May 12 11:30:30 CEST 2006 gcc 3.3.5
>> Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005 [latest update: #7021]
>> Linux altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk 2.6.8-2-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 16
>> 12:08:30
>> UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
>> default plugin location: /usr/lib/squeak/3.9-7/*.so
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ___________________________________________________________
>> All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its
>> simplicity and
>> ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
>

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Milan Zimmermann-2

Re: caps lock introduces funny menu behaviour

In reply to this post by keith1y

Keith,

I just verified - you are right, this is still hapenning as reported in

http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=565

Basically, the problem is that Caps-Lock is modifying mouse events, while it
should only modify key-pressed for key=A-Z. It seems minor but quite
confusion when user hit it first time, I did not know what is hapenning, and
I think I reinstalled fresh image and the VM before I found CapsLock on :(

(I have to clarify my above original report was not quite clear and correct,
the problem is currently only with Caps-Lock modifying mouse events.)

In the above bug, there is a link to a fix Ned Konz provided in Novemer 1994.
I am not sure if it was ever applied.

Please let me know if you'd like to report it, or I can do that. I do not have
priviledges to re-open the bug, we can creat a new one.

Happens on Linux and (I understand) Mas VM, Windows is OK

Milan

On 2006 August 3 20:53, Keith Hodges wrote:

Milan Zimmermann-2

[BUG] [Was: Re: caps lock introduces funny menu behaviour]

In reply to this post by keith1y

I just reported this on:

http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=5107

milan

On 2006 August 3 20:53, Keith Hodges wrote: