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Beginner Joined: 23 Jul 2009 Posts: 12

This bug is quite difficult to recreate, however I'll give it a shot.

I have added a number of macros: ALT+S, ALT+C, etc.
The way they are supposed to work (I believe) is with the left Alt key pressed.
However when typing in a rapid succession and using the right Alt key (some of the special characters in my native language require it)
sometimes one of the Macros fires.

And that's that.. don't know if I can help narrow it down.. But thanks for your help anyway.

G.

PS Any luck on the substitution + wrapping bug? Wink

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Does it only happen when you type a special character (requiring ALT) just before an s or c or other key which has a macro attached to the ALT+character? That is, does the ALT+S macro only accidentally execute if you type an S immediately after some other ALT+character? If that is the case, are you absolutely certain that you are fully releasing the ALT key before typing the S?

I only type in English, so I don't have any experience with rapid typing with ALT characters. But I know I sometimes have problems even with the SHIFT key being held just a moment too long before the next character.

Beginner Joined: 23 Jul 2009 Posts: 12

The difference between the ALT and Shift key is that CMUD should discern between Right (the macro Alt) and Left Alt (language Alt), however sometimes it does not.

G.

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 4:40 pm

CMUD doesn't handle macros at the low level where the Right and Left Alt keys are different. CMUD just fires based upon the keyboard messages sent to it by Windows. If CMUD receives a key-down message for the Alt-key combination of your macro, then CMUD runs the macro. You cannot set up different macros in CMUD for the left vs right Alt keys.

It sounds like Windows is sending the wrong message to CMUD sometimes. I'm not sure there is anything I can do to help with this within CMUD. All CMUD can do is respond to what Windows sends it. I'm not going to get into the low-level keyboard driver because that will just cause more complexity and problems.

Beginner Joined: 23 Jul 2009 Posts: 12

Right, that makes sense. Just a quick question though: is it possible to add an option for Left/Right Alt Macros? (LALT, RALT?)
That would both solve the problem and give a more customizable macro pool.

Thanks, G.

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:11 pm