Re: Slow repeat rate

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Jon,
This is very likely a Tame issue, not one involving any Xy setting. I am
using Tame 5.1 prebata 9 also. I was able to solve the same problem you
had, after a *lot* of experimentation.

My situation is rather idiosyncratic, but try what follows.

I think the file to work with is:
My Documents\Tame 5.1\XyWrite.app.tam

The stanza to work with is
/TameConsole
Here is my version, with the idiosyncratic parts removed. I think you can
paste this at the bottom of this stanza, and even if there's contrary info
above it, the last one supersedes it, but you might want to use it to
replace what's in yours, instead.

  KeyProcessOpt = +#0000_0080
           -#1000_0000 ; Optionally ignore repeated shift/ctl/alt
   WinKeys = -#00003000
   LayoutIgnoreBIOS=on
   DosMouseFilter = #77777700
   MinRows = 12
   MinCols = 40   ; Set limits on screen resize

; XY seems to have problems above these limits
    MaxCols = 150
    MaxRows = 50  ;
  ;; Use this if you do not want the window size to change after startup
  ;; Hardcode rows and cols
;* StdCols=80 StdRows=25
LayoutStartupScan=on LayoutAutoScan=off
;    KeyProcessOpt = +#80  ; Allow adding keystrokes to the BIOS
buffer while the app may still be busy


;* Speed key repeat while also releasing more CPU
  KeyRepeatSmoothTime = -1 ; Buffer the next key soon after the prior
key is read
  KeyRepeatSmooth = t
After you've got that in, launch Xy and see if that fixes it. It probably
won't, but then you can left-click (left click, not right click) on the
XyWrite icon on the title bar (upper left corner of window), go to Edit/Key
Repeat Adjustment and try different values there.

If this doesn't work, let me know.

Good luck,
Harry

Another computer, another installation.
> I'm using Tame 5.1 (prebeta 9 I think) with excellent settings from
> Michael Norman slightly tweaked for font and text size. Changing those
> doesn't affect the problem.
> All is copasetic except the keyboard repeat rate, which in practice mostly
> affects using left and right arrow keys to move the cursor through a line
> of text. It's very slow--slower than repeatedly hitting the key--and
> stuttery. Up and down arrows whiz around the document as usual.
> The KS line in settings.dfl had been commented out (through countless
> reinstallations). I un-commented it and left it at df ks=0,0 but it made
> no difference.
>
> There's no problem with repeat rate in Windows apps.
>
> The computer is a Fujitsu P8010, Win XP with SP3.
>
> Any thoughts, between holiday libations?
>
> Jon Pareles


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx