[Visualpython-users] keyboard snag

[symion <sy...@pr...>]

I have been looking workarounds and found that by including opacity 
during a box definition, with any value Except 1.0 allows opacity to work!
Also, if you have nested frames then a pause before connecting the main 
frame from the sub frames works!

Another problem that has just popped up.
Any keyboard input that requires holding down a key for long periods 
seems to cause some programs to freeze, but not all!

Here are 3 examples, they all use cursor keys to move or spin objects.

result-1.py 
<http://home.primusonline.com.au/knoware/python/result-1.py>  This one 
crashes easily.

Spincube.py 
<http://home.primusonline.com.au/knoware/python/Spincube.py>  This one 
does not crash at all (at least on my machine)

Wiregrid-0.py 
<http://home.primusonline.com.au/knoware/python/Wiregrid-0.py>  This one 
crashes after a while. You have to move the cursor a fair way before it 
locks up.


It acts like a keyboard buffer overflow, but that's just a guess.

Also, vpython programs seem to take a long time to exit. I'm on a PC and 
with Task Manager set to monitor processes, it takes as much as 11 
seconds for the pythonw.exe to be removed from the list. Now maybe it's 
just my slow system, (I'm running Vista Home Edition) but if I try 
running another script before the old one has been cleared out then the 
threads get jumbled and I either get a 'blocked by firewall' message or 
a 'bad socket' message.

Symion