Repeating keys

[pete1414]

When holding down an alphabet key, multiple key down / key up events are sent. (Undesired action..)

When holding down the "Arrow" keys, key up is not sent until the key is released. (Desired action for all keys.. )

I am using the app "KeyEvent Display" to display key events.

[pete1414]

Looks like in inputmanager.c 'send_keycode', The key up event is sent immediately after the key down event.

[pete1414]

I did another test using the android app 'KeyEvent display" with scrcpy and bluetooth keyboard

Scrcopy sends repeated up / down for holding down alpha key.
Bluetooth keyboard sends Single down with incrementing 'repeat' value. Key up is not sent until the key is released.

[pete1414]

Sorry seems to be a duplicate of #87 and #109

[rom1v]

Thank you for your report and your investigations.

You're right, this is probably the cause of the problem.

However, this is not easy to solve: up and down are related to key events, but text input must be handled via text input events (handle text input).

So either we handle text correctly according to the keyboard layout, either we handle up and down key events for characters keys, but then the layout will not match. I don't know how to get both.

[pete1414]

Would it be easier to have the user switch between modes? .. ie, press Ctrl G to enter 'game' mode. Press again to use text mode.