[Xcircuit-dev] Mouse issues: Resolution...

[John Heil]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, R. Timothy Edwards wrote:

> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:32:22 -0700
> From: R. Timothy Edwards <tim.edwards at multigig.com>
> To: John Heil <edadev at sc-software.com>
> Cc: xcircuit-dev at opencircuitdesign.com
> Subject: Re: [Xcircuit-dev] Mouse issues: Resolution...
>
> Dear John,
>
> > Turns out, 'HOLD' is always active ( Wm: FVWM2) no matter how quickly I
> > tap mouse Button1.
> >
> > Since there exists a move command tool button, I figured it was
> > safe to just comment out the above line.
>
> I didn't even think of that possibility.  I know of one person at
> MultiGiG who had a similar problem with the HOLD function being delayed
> across a network and making it difficult to work.  I added a menu option
> "Options-->Allow Hold Mode" that can be turned off to create the same
> behavior you generated.  For future reference, you can avoid patching
> every version of xcircuit by having a .xcircuitrc file with the command
> "config hold false", which will disable it permanently.

Cool...

>
> Unless you're working over a network, it sounds like fvwm2 is actively
> disabling the HOLD function.  Either it's forcing the keyboard Mod2Mask

In this case, no network. I have another CAD pkg for ME and the mouse
buttons all work fine there and it too has a HOLD implementation so
I'm not at suspecting fvwm2... yet...

> (which I used for HOLD because it isn't usually mapped to anything),
> or else the timer is not working properly.  You could also try to
> change PRESSTIME (xcircuit.h line 993) to something larger, like 500
> or 1000, just to see if 150 milliseconds is just too fast.  Otherwise,

150ms seems _way_ too fast for my pointer, an older Logitech 3 button
TrackMan Marble (its buttons even 'feel' slow... perhaps accumulated
grunge :) ).

I'll try upping that time, first, & report back.

> if it's the key mask that's the problem, you might fix it by changing
> Mod2Mask to something less likely to be used, like Mod5Mask, in all
> occurrences (3 times in keybindings.c or once in events.c).
>
> 					---Tim
>
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Thnx v much,
johnh

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