[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Robot - Simulate keyboard and mouse events under X11

[Chris Wong]

I removed the functionality because I didn't really see a use for it
anymore. The `hold` and `tap` functions are already exception safe
(thanks to `bracket`), and anyone who uses the unguarded `press`
function probably wants to keep it held down anyway.

Chris


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me> wrote:
> Awesome, that works very well, and it even made my program run faster /
> with less CPU.
>
> The reset functionality is useful, but I think optional is better. Did
> you remove it entirely or is it still available?
>
> On Tue 14 May 2013 08:25:04 SGT, Chris Wong wrote:
>> Oh, I see now. I originally made the runRobot functions reset the
>> input state when the Robot finished running. That worked well for my
>> use case (testing GUIs), but as you have noticed, it causes
>> unintuitive behavior when runRobot is called at a high frequency.
>>
>> In hindsight, that was a design flaw on my part: that resetting
>> behavior should be specified explicitly, not attached unconditionally
>> to every call to runRobot.
>>
>> I've removed the offending code, and released it as version 1.1.
>> Hopefully I've ironed out the issues now :)
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me> wrote:
>>>> Can you show me the code that triggers that behavior?
>>>
>>> It is basically
>>>
>>> Just connection <- connect
>>> forever $ do
>>>   (x,y) <- getGyroMovement
>>>   runRobotWithConnection (moveBy x y) connection
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Chris Wong, fixpoint conjurer
>>   e: lambda.fairy at gmail.com
>>   w: http://lfairy.github.io/



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  e: lambda.fairy at gmail.com
  w: http://lfairy.github.io/