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

[Niklas Hambüchen]

Ah OK.

Thank you again for the fast fixes!

On Tue 14 May 2013 11:44:43 SGT, Chris Wong wrote:
> 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 I originally made the runRobot functions reset the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/
>
>
>
> --
> Chris Wong, fixpoint conjurer
>   e: lambda.fairy at gmail.com
>   w: http://lfairy.github.io/