[Scummvm-devel] Simplifying keyboard repeat

[David Given]

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Marcus Comstedt wrote:
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> That's because I haven't implemented Ctrl-a or key-repeat in the DC
> backend as I think it should be part of the platform independent
> code.

Small point of information: some platforms are exceptionally unfriendly when
it comes to key repeat. X, for example. When you hold down a key on X, what
you get is DOWN (long pause), UP, DOWN (short pause), UP, DOWN (short
pause)... which means that any code which *doesn't* want to be notified of key
repeats is basically screwed. You end up having to do trickery with the event
timestamps to try and remove the extraneous UP events. I don't know if any
other platforms do this, but this one's bitten me in my real life job.

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