RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Text insertion bug

["Gerry Iles" <GerryI@xxxxxxxx>]

I sent a message last Thursday pointing out that Ctrl, Shift and Alt
were dumping out auto-repeating events to TRACE.  I was a little
surprised that no-one commented on it but forgot to follow it up...

Gerry

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Neil Howe
Sent: 10 April 2006 10:47
To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Text insertion bug



> 
> > I do get a rectangle inserted with the current version if I press
Tab,
> > Caps Lock or Ctrl. I think a few more values need to be filtered
out.
> > Conversely, I notice that wxWidges does not let all keypresses
through
> > to the application, e.g., the Euro sign.
> 
> I think it's just that when you type text you tend to start with a
> capital letter, which involves pressing shift, which results in
> the character. Press shift (alone) ten times and you get ten squares.
> 

Yes you're right Alex - I hadn't spotted that so I must always start my
text stories with a capital. So we need to work out why pressing shift
inserts a character.

Neil