Bug#527943: Tab and capslock keys make some or all keys stop working
Package: vkeybd
Version: 1:0.1.17b-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch
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While using the computer keyboard to play notes, pressing capslock makes all letter keys stop working because only lowercase keys are defined in keymaps. Moreover, if you have opened a panel (menu view -> key/velocity, controls, etc.), pressing tab will move the focus to the panel so that all keys stop working until the focus comes back to the piano keyboard.
For the first problem I propose that the procedure “KeybdCreate” also declares uppercase keys whenever a key has different lowercase and uppercase values. For the second one, I propose to bind keyboard events to piano notes for the whole application “.” instead of “$w”. This is still located in the same procedure. The patch is as follow:
--- /usr/share/vkeybd/vkeybd.tcl.orig 2009-05-08 22:09:03.000000000 +0200
+++ Desktop/vkeybd.tcl 2009-05-09 12:05:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -94,8 +94,13 @@
foreach i $keymap {
set key [lindex $i 0]
set note [lindex $i 1]
- bind $w <KeyPress-$key> [list KeyQueue 1 $note 0]
- bind $w <KeyRelease-$key> [list KeyQueue 0 $note 0]
+ bind . <KeyPress-$key> [list KeyQueue 1 $note 0]
+ bind . <KeyRelease-$key> [list KeyQueue 0 $note 0]
+ set upperkey [string toupper $key]
+ if {[string length $key] == 1 && $upperkey != $key} {
+ bind . <KeyPress-$upperkey> [list KeyQueue 1 $note 0]
+ bind . <KeyRelease-$upperkey> [list KeyQueue 0 $note 0]
+ }
}
Best regards,
JM. Philippe
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages vkeybd depends on:
ii libasound2 1.0.16-2 ALSA library
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library
ii tcl8.4 8.4.19-2 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii tk8.4 8.4.19-2 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -
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