Still some troubles in Commodity-land

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Wed, 2015-12-02 15:30
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OldFart
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Still some troubles in Commodity-land

Hi,

I experience some strange phenomenon when trying to create a CxFilter object. Especially when "rawmouse" is used, in which case it sets the error to 'BADFILTER'.

Here is a little proggy I cobbled up to demonstrate the issue:

  1. #include <proto/exec.h>
  2. #include <proto/dos.h>
  3. #include <proto/commodities.h>
  4.  
  5. CONST_STRPTR FD[] = {"rawmouse leftbutton"
  6.                     ,"rawmouse rightbutton"
  7.                     ,"rawmouse midbutton"
  8.                     ,"rawmouse relativemouse"
  9.                     ,"shift -alt -control a"
  10.                     ,"rawkey lshift alt f2"
  11.                     ,"rawkey control esc"
  12.                     , NULL
  13.                     };
  14.  
  15. int main(int argc, char *argv[])
  16. {
  17.   int RetVal = 9;
  18.  
  19.   CxObj *CO;
  20.   int32 CxErr;
  21.   uint16 i = 0;
  22.  
  23.   while (FD[i] != NULL)
  24.    {
  25.     CO = CxFilter(FD[i]);
  26.  
  27.     if (CO != NULL)
  28.      {
  29.       CxErr = ICommodities->CxObjError(CO);
  30.       IDOS->Printf("Error : %ld -- %s\n", CxErr, FD[i]);
  31.       ICommodities->ClearCxObjError(CO);
  32.  
  33.       CxErr = 0;
  34.  
  35.       ICommodities->DeleteCxObj(CO);
  36.      }
  37.  
  38.     i++;
  39.    }
  40.  
  41.   return RetVal;
  42. }

On the console i get this output:

  1. Error : 4 -- rawmouse leftbutton
  2. Error : 4 -- rawmouse rightbutton
  3. Error : 4 -- rawmouse midbutton
  4. Error : 4 -- rawmouse relativemouse
  5. Error : 0 -- shift -alt -control a
  6. Error : 0 -- rawkey lshift alt f2
  7. Error : 0 -- rawkey control esc

Anything related to "rawmouse" produces an error.

N.b. '-lauto' switch is used for compilation.

Do I overlook something?

Btw.: I've even taken one of the examples from Amiga wiki, made it compileable, and it produces the same error.

OldFart

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Wed, 2015-12-02 21:06
OldFart
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Re: Troubles in Commodity-land

After a reply I got from xenic at another forum it appears that some keywords are ill-documented: "leftbutton" should be "mouse_leftpress", "rightbutton" should be "mouse_rightpress" and "midbutton" should be "mouse_middlepress".

  1. Error : 4 -- rawmouse leftbutton
  2. Error : 0 -- rawmouse mouse_rightpress
  3. Error : 4 -- rawmouse rightbutton
  4. Error : 0 -- rawmouse mouse_leftpress
  5. Error : 4 -- rawmouse midbutton
  6. Error : 0 -- rawmouse mouse_middlepress
  7. Error : 4 -- rawmouse relativemouse
  8. Error : 0 -- shift -alt -control a
  9. Error : 0 -- rawkey lshift alt f2
  10. Error : 0 -- rawkey control esc

Problem seems solved.

OldFart

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Mon, 2015-12-07 21:28
OldFart
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Re: (No more) Troubles in Commodity-land

@lurkers

It is HERE where all the fun is happening. Come in and join the party!

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Mon, 2016-01-11 17:03
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Re: Still some troubles in Commodity-land

Just out of interest what happens if you try "rawkey leftbutton" instead? :-

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Thu, 2016-01-14 18:33
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Re: Still some troubles in Commodity-land

@hypex
Unless leftbutton was in the Commodities library documentation WIKI and has been removed it's not listed as a valid qualifier for OS4. It's listed in the commodities library section of the OS3 Workbench book but some OS3 documentation doesn't apply to OS4 anymore. I do think the WIKI could lead to a little confusion over what you can use when creating a hotkey with the CxFilter() function and what you can use in a CxCustom() object. I think the old OS3 Workbench manual states that a hotkey consists of a qualifier and keyboard key; which appears to be true. Even though CxFilter() didn't produce an error in Oldfarts tests, my testing indicates that using a qualifier alone in CxFilter() doesn't actually work.

X1000 - OS 4.1FE

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Thu, 2016-01-14 18:59
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Re: Still some troubles in Commodity-land

Using a qualifier alone does not make any sense.

The CxFilter object filters input events. An input event consists (among others) of a class, a code and a qualifier. Class and code describe the cause of the input event, qualifier is only an attribute. So you always have to specify a class and a code. The qualifier is an optional additional filter criteria.

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