RE: altGR key problem with windows XP

["Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Andreas,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Andreas Schessner
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:47 AM
> To: alain perrier; Harold L Hunt II; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: altGR key problem with windows XP
>
>
> Hello Alain and Harold,
>
> sorry, I had a lot of work last month's and today I just returned out
> from vacation.
>
> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
>  >Alain,
>  >
>  >The problem with Andreas Schessner's patch was that it modified
> functions
>  >that were not being compiled in the default build. I asked him where the
>  >missing parts of the patch were, but he never responded. I don't know
> if he
>  >just gave up or if he realized that his patch maybe didn't have
> the effect
>  >that he thought it did. In any case, we no longer have a valid report of
>  >that problem... if you can contact Andreas Schessner and ask him for the
>  >rest of his patch, then perhaps we can get somewhere. Until then, I can
>  >only assume that he made some sort of mistake and decided to keep quiet
>  >about it :) Seriously, what else can I think when someone stops helping
>  >to get their patch committed?
>  >
>  >Harold
>
> Harold, that's not true.
> I sent you all the modified sources and the patch worked fine for me and
> some of my friends.
>

The message I sent was:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-11/msg00137.html


Granted, looking back at that message I obviously joined two sentences
together and dropped out a few words so it is pretty confusing.

What I was trying to say was that the patch you sent me modified a function
that was not being compiled in the default compile.  It is as simple as
that.

There are one of two explanations for how this happened:

1) You updated an old or odd version of the source code that only had one
version of the function that was not being compiled.  When you made a diff
it looked like you were updating the version that was #if def'd out, when in
fact you were updating a file that only had one version of the function and
your file had no such #if def's in it.

2) You modified other files, most likely win.h, and flipped some flags that
told that #if def'd out version of the function to be compiled.


Either way, I spent two hours back in November trying to get your patch to
apply cleanly.  I eventually gave up and sent you the above message, to
which I never noticed a response (doesn't mean that there was not a
response).


>From your new explanation I believe that your patch certainly works, but I
still need you to download the latest code from CVS and apply your patch to
that code by hand.  Then run the following:

cd xc/programs/Xserver/hw
cvs -z3 diff -U3 xwin > xwin-altgr.diff

Then send me altgr.diff.  That way I will be sure to have any and all files
that were updated.

Oh yeah, and please follow the style that is used in the current files, as I
really don't want to spend time reformatting and renaming variables, etc.

Also, try to make only the changes that are necessary.

Thanks for your contribution,

Harold