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From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
Subject: Re: WinLIB/XAES Evaluation
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 12:28:10 -0600
Precedence: bulk
Hello Kevin,
> > editable fields is frightening. It dropped characters when I
> > typed, and I'm not a particularly fast typist. (This confused me,
> > to be honest. What could it be doing in-between keystrokes that
> > takes so long? The brief text message it displays after each
> > keystroke does not slow things down that much.)
>
>Its perhaps even more worrying than that, because it hints at misusing the
>AES. If all input is coming from an evnt_multi then keys shouldn't be dropped
>- if they arrive before the program is ready for them they will still be
>in the event queue ready to be collected when the program is ready.
>Distinctly dodgy.
This is hard to tell. Is it possible to overflow the AES buffer while
you are _not_ waiting for an event? If you tell evnt_multi that you are
waiting for MU_KEYBD, and then it returns a keyboard event, will the AES
put another keyboard event in the pipe while you are still processing the
last one?
--
Michel Forget \\ mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca //
Electric Storm Software \\ ess@tibalt.supernet.ab.ca //
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