Race condition in keyboard code?

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at codeweavers.com
Fri Mar 24 08:53:21 CST 2006


"Peter Åstrand" <astrand at cendio.se> wrote:

> What about using the thread_input->keystate, just as for Shift, Control,
> and NumLock?
>
> ToUnicodeEx does have a lpKeyState argument, so to me, it seems very wrong
> that a static, global variable is needed as well.

I don't see how a thread local keystate would solve a problem with 2 repetitive
KeyPress events you reported initially as being the source of the problem.

> The current implementation has another drawback: AltGr key presses never
> reaches the applications. In Windows, applications recieves VK_CONTROL,
> VK_MENU when AltGr is pressed.

Feel free to investigate it.

-- 
Dmitry. 




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