Re: keycode program

["David B. Kronenfeld" kfeld@xxxxxxxx]

The problem wasn't that Myron's code brought NB down, but something more
sneaky: It made NB impossible to exit from; hitting "esc" just returned
the value for that key. Closing NB and reopening it still left it with the
routine running and un-exitable from. It did not freeze Windows, but I had
to reboot in order to get back to a usable NBWin. And the code values
returned were too long. This is with NB 6.1 in Win XP--which, from the
various conversations, was perhaps relevant. It is always possible that I
did something dumb to screw it up, but I'm not sure how--like I've done a
lot of XY and NB configuring, some XPL programming, and lots of other
programming (Pascal and stuff like that. I could try it again--and might
next time I feel like rebooting--but it sure did it the first time, and
from the NB list it appears that I was not alone.
                Cheers,
                David


At 11:38 PM 1/12/2003 -0500, Robert wrote:
> ** Reply to message from cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano) on Sun, 12 Jan 2003
> 21:20:46 -0500

snip snip
> The basic code of Myron's revision does adhere to the original and does work,
> in both Xy4 and NB, even if it won't print to the screen anymore and the
> SUbroutine mod makes no sense. Crippled it may be, but it's inconceivable
> that
> it could bring NB down, much less necessitate a computer reboot.
>
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> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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