[Bf-committers] Some infos about bug #1493 (align cam. to view)

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Stats from our gfx database: (frontpage blender.org)

Win98 12 users
ME 6 users
2000 58 users
XP 113 users

So using your proposed solution at least serves about 85% of active  
Windows users. :)
Not sure how representative these stats are, but it looks pretty  
convincing to me.

I also thought MS dropped support for Win98?

-Ton-


On Tuesday, Aug 31, 2004, at 01:31 Europe/Amsterdam, Florian  
Eggenberger wrote:

> Jean-Luc Peurière wrote:
>> Le 30 août 04, à 19:32, Florian Eggenberger a écrit :
>>> Kent Mein wrote:
>>>
>>>> In reply to Florian Eggenberger (florian.eggenberger at gmx.net):
>>>>
>>>>> The bug is caused by a cool windows feature! Shift+Numpad0 is the  
>>>>> same as shift+insert. This combo is a system combo for inserting  
>>>>> clipboard content. Instead of VK_NUMPAD0 the virtual key VK_INSERT  
>>>>> is fired when shift is pressed.
>>>>>
>>>>> I couldn't find any solution how to change that or get more states  
>>>>> to distinguish the keys. Maybe I'm wrong. Has anyone an idea how  
>>>>> to change virtual keys without writing a device driver?
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess this will be a "known limitation on windows"
>>>>>
>>>> This isn't a fix but I added this to the Ghost refactoring wiki  
>>>> page..
>>>> http://wiki.blender.org/bin/view.pl/Blenderdev/GhostRefactoring
>>>> Hopefully it will be taken care of with that eventually.
>>>> Kent
>>>
>>>
>>> This is not a GHOST or Blender problem. It is a Windows problem. I
>>> tested that behaviour with a very simple "hello world" app. Same
>>> results.
>> can't we check the raw scancode ?
>> I don't know *at all* the window code part
>
>
> sirdude kicked me in the right direction. Thanks! There is a way how  
> to intecept raw codes. But unfortunately only NT4 and above.... I  
> guess there are still too much win9x users. (no idea how a current  
> blender performs on a win9x oven).. And hooking raw codes is somewhat  
> an overkill for just one hotkey. So far this is one exception to the  
> usual event handling on windows.
>
> Changing the hotkey is not my problem. Guess I could solve the problem  
> with a lowlevel hook... This would not affect Blender code, just Win32  
> GHOST. But this is a bigger change in GHOST and so I prefer to  
> investigate further and then report again. stay tuned.
>
> Will ask some Win32 guru as soon as possible.
>
> Florian
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