Re: [wxhaskell-users] wxAsteroids is broken on Ubuntu?

[Pedro V. <pb...@dc...>]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 02:28:01 -0700
Kevin Cantu <me...@ke...> wrote:

> I was just trying out wxAsteroids (from Hackage) and found that the
> controls don't work on my system, although I'm told they work for
> someone using OS X.  This is baffling to me.
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and Xfce (xubuntu).  Once I
> start the wxAsteroids program, I'm able to start a new game with
> CTRL-N, pause with CTRL-P, and quit with CTRL-Q, but I can't move the
> ship with arrow keys, or speed it up with + or -, at all.
> 
> Any ideas why?
> 

I have experienced similar issues (particularly keyboard events not
being caugh) and managed to solve them by using a panel inside
the main window (in wx terms, the frame).

Regards,

Pedro