doublecommand-devel — Devlopment of DoubleCommand

[Doublecommand-devel] Panic on system update?

[William U. <wil...@cs...>]

Hi all,

I've been running the subversion version of DoubleCommand for a while  
now.  After the last two system updates (the recent security update  
for wireless drivers, and the 10.4.8 update), I've been getting  
kernel panics on boot.  It seems that DoubleCommand is the culprit.   
Has anyone else been seeing this?

   With the wireless update I was able to get around it by un- 
installing and then reinstalling DoubleCommand.  The only thing I can  
think of that reinstalling might affect is the order the kext is  
loaded.  I have a backtrace, but unfortunately it was without debug  
information so I don't know how useful it is.  With 10.4.8 I've just  
uninstalled DoubleCommand for the moment.

This is with a PowerBook G4.

Be well,

Will         :-}

[Doublecommand-devel] Keyboard specific rules

[William U. <wil...@cs...>]

Hi all,

   My name is Will.  I'm new here.  Hi.  *waves*

   I previously used uControl.  Specifically, I *sometimes* use an  
external keyboard on my Powerbook.  I want the command (windows) and  
option (alt) keys swapped on that external keyboard, but not on my  
built-in keyboard - that makes my finger memory work everywhere.   
uControl allowed this keyboard-specific control.  Unfortunately, when  
Tiger came it stopped working.

   I just noticed that DoubleCommand has acquired Tiger  
compatibility.  So I grabbed the source and hacked it to  
differentiate between my two keyboards.  This is a quick, ugly hack,  
but it works for me.  I'm not sure if I'll get more time to spend on  
it, and I have scratched my own itch so it isn't as high a priority  
as it was, but here is my ugly hack:

Index: kext/Substitute.cpp
===================================================================
--- kext/Substitute.cpp	(revision 151)
+++ kext/Substitute.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -59,6 +59,13 @@
	lastKeyboardType = *keyboardType;
+	if (lastKeyboardType == 37) {	// Will's ugly hack - ignore my  
internal keyboard type
+		if (dcConfig & MB_DEBUG_OUTPUT) {
+			printf("Ignoring internal keybaord\n");
+		}
+		return 0;
+	}
+
	if( (dcConfig & CAPSLOCK_DISABLED))
	{
		removeFlags |= CAPSLOCK_FLAG;


   BTW, is there a reason the development archives are not set up?   
It means that noone not on the list now will ever see this...

Be well,

Will         :-}