Re: "Shift to prevent autoconnect" is broken?

[Mark R. <bd...@us...>]

On Jan 13, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Jason Townsend wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2005, at 11:44 PM, Mark Rowe wrote:
>> I was fiddling around the other day and noticed that the old trick of 
>> holding down shift to prevent accounts from autoconnecting no longer 
>> seems to work.  I had a look back through previous CVS revisions, and 
>> the code in question doesn't appear to have changed in a long long 
>> time.  Am I imagining things?  Is this really broken?  If so, I've 
>> attached a patch which I'd like to squeeze in to 1.5.1.  If someone 
>> can confirm that this isn't behaving correctly I will commit the fix.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mark Rowe
>> <http://bdash.net.nz/>
>> <fire-shift-to-disable-autoconnect.patch>
>
> Well, it works just fine for me with the existing code. That's no 
> surprise I guess since I added that in the first place. :)
>
> What keyboard do you have?

I'm using the built-in keyboard on a AlBook.  The existing code *used* 
to work for me too, but for some reason it seems to have stopped 
recently.  The code in my patch works for me though, and IMO is both a 
simpler and "more obvious" way to do it.

Regards,

Mark