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Re: CUT off in my prime

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 1:54 pm
by tperry2x
And I know this is off topic, but why in LC10 does the tools palette still use classic control images from OSX 10.6.8?
Your screenshot earlier made me notice it:
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Looks nothing short of embarrassing, given that this can't even run on OSX 10.6.8. So there's no good reason for using those graphics, except that they are inherited from an old LCC build.

Re: CUT off in my prime

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 4:43 pm
by richmond62
Why do think my bear and I were playing this game?
Funnily enough I was just playing a word-game with my teddy bear while that was downloading and installing:

It goes like this:

1. Think of a person, group of people, institution, or company.

2. Think up as many adjectives as you can associated with #1.

3. Roll on the floor laughing.

Re: CUT off in my prime

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 6:11 pm
by richmond62
While it is "wander off the topic time" . . .

On ALL the Macs I use I have swapped the COMMAND and CONTROL Keys:
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SO my muscle memory doesn't go bonkers flipping back and forth between Linux and Mac. 8-)

ALSO: I have yet to see a gamer's keypad with a COMMAND button:
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Re: CUT off in my prime

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 8:51 pm
by tperry2x
Talking of:
  • wandering off topic
  • macs
  • keyboards
Does anyone know how you set the initial key repeat delay to 0 through a script on MacOS?
Just to be clear: I'm not talking about the key repeat rate.
I'm talking about the initial delay while you hold a key down, and the time which passes, until it begins to be seen as a repeating event.

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In linux, I could issue this command from within the IDE:

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get shell("xset r rate 1 40")
1 is the intial delay until repeated keypresses are seen as repeating
40 is the actual repeat rate.

There seems no easy way to be able to set this through script on MacOS.
Why am I bothered? Only because this prevents a mac version of a 2D platformer stack from working with keypresses as intended.

Re: CUT off in my prime

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2025 2:29 pm
by OpenXTalkPaul
tperry2x wrote: Sun Feb 16, 2025 8:51 pm Talking of:
  • wandering off topic
  • macs
  • keyboards
Does anyone know how you set the initial key repeat delay to 0 through a script on MacOS?
Just to be clear: I'm not talking about the key repeat rate.
I'm talking about the initial delay while you hold a key down, and the time which passes, until it begins to be seen as a repeating event.
I think there's a way to turn off key-repeating all together for the xTalk Engine, but anything more granular like setting initial delay I would imagine involves setting a keyboard system panel prefs .plist key probably easiest using the 'defaults write"... command line tool.

I found this info posted on SO back in 2013, not sure if it's still valid:
defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 10 # normal minimum is 15 (225 ms)
defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1 # normal minimum is 2 (30 ms)
The changes aren't applied until you log out and back in. KeyRepeat can't be set between 2 (30 ms) and 1 (15 ms) though.

Re: CUT off in my prime

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2025 3:05 pm
by richmond62
https://openxtalk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1366

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