Larry,
I think that the 16 character limit is a feature.
Either I read it somewhere or I got e-mail form Palm
about this being a feature. I believe that this
justification is to prevent filling up a memo with
junk if you put something on your keyboard.
The "oops I went to far" bug has annoyed me as well.
I would suggest that you contact Palm support about
this.
Now here is a bug that I have been having. Open up an
memo and type "1234567890" and then enter. Now type
"12345678901234567890". Don't hit enter but press the
up arrow. Now press the left arrow and see that the
cursor does not move left. You have to press the left
arrow key nine or ten times to get it to work. It
appears that the driver does not understand where it
should be. I e-mailed Palm about this and they gave
me the typical response to install the 1.2 driver.
Well, my e-mail mentioned that I had the 1.2 driver
installed. I then e-mailed them back and asked them
to _read_ my e-mail with the detailed description on
how to reproduce the bug. Well, this morning, I got
e-mail form them to return my keyboard since it is not
working correclty. I find this hard to believe given
the nature of the bug. Could you try to reproduce
this for me on your keyboard as well? If it happens
on yours, I'll e-mail Palm once again.
Thanks for hearing me out.
Mike McCollister
--- "Lawrence B. Afrin, M.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Howdy --
>
> Bought the Portable Keyboard a couple months ago,
> and believe I have
> noted two bugs in the 1.2 keyboard driver. Can't
> find any mention of
> either of these in this forum's archive going back a
> year, was wondering
> if anyone else is seeing either of these behaviors.
>
> (1) Pressed-key autorepetition stops after the
> sixteenth repetition.
> That is, I press a key on the keyboard (any key
> recognized by the driver
> as a potentially
> repeating key), I hold it down to initiate the
> repeating action, I
> continue to hold it down while the repeating action
> takes place, but
> even if I keep holding it down, the repeating action
> stops after the
> sixteenth repetition. For example, if I press and
> hold down the "J"
> key, it will only give me 16 j's even if I keep the
> "J" key held down
> past the point when the 16th "j" has shown up on the
> screen. Similarly,
> if I press and hold the down-arrow key, it will only
> go down 16 lines
> (in a long memo, for example) even if I keep the
> down-arrow key held
> down past the point when the cursor has gone down to
> the 16th line.
>
> The proper behavior should be that the key that's
> held down is repeated
> indefinitely until the key is released.
>
> (2) Incorrect deselection of a block of selected
> text in a specific
> situation. Try this: pull up a memo, activate the
> cursor anywhere in
> the memo (except the very end), hold down the Shift
> key, and start
> hitting the right-arrow key to highlight (select) a
> block of text. Now,
> pretend you said "Oops, I didn't mean to go that
> far" and try to hit the
> left-arrow key to decrease the block of selected
> text by one character.
> Boom. Did the block decrease in size by one
> character? Nope, sure
> didn't. Instead, the entire block of selected text
> suddenly got
> deselected.
>
> Try it the other way. Activate the cursor anywhere
> in the memo (except
> the very beginning), then hold down the Shift key,
> and start hitting the
> left-arrow key to select a block of text prior to
> the cursor point. OK,
> now pretend you went too far and try to hit the
> right-arrow key to
> decrease the selected block by a character. Aha!
> That works fine. But
> when selecting text in a forward direction and
> *then* attempting to
> deselect in the backward direction, that's where the
> driver shows its
> bugginess by deselecting the entire block of text.
>
> Obviously, it should work as well for selecting text
> in the forward
> direction as it does in the backward direction.
>
> Can't find any driver on Palm's site more recent
> than the version 1.2
> that came with the Portable Keyboard. Anybody know
> of any
> fixes/workarounds?
>
> -- Larry Afrin
> Med. Univ. of S.C.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
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