Alt Key Problem - OSX - PlayOnMac - Flickering bug [video]

[iBurger]

Hello all,

I have a minor but annoying bug to report. When holding down the alt key on OSX/Wine, I get a rapid-fire response and not the typical 'press down alt key & release alt key'. Note that PlayOnMac maps the CMD key to ALT. So I'm actually holding the CMD key pressed in.

Video of the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqYL-_vdrI

The "rapid fire" (repeat signal) creates the flickering you see in the video.

NB.
System/Software used: wine 1.7.52 / playonmac office 2010 install / osx yosemite 10.10.
Link to PlayOnMac install: https://www.playonmac.com/en/app-801-Mi ... 02010.html

[dimesio]

System/Software used: wine 1.7.52 / playonmac office 2010 install / osx yosemite 10.10.

PlayOnMac is not supported here, and the Wine version you are using with it is old and no longer supported.

Retest in the latest development release of plain Wine. Use the WineHQ package. https://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX

[iBurger]

Managed to replicate the problem with wine-1.9.10.

Startup script Excel2010. (*based on Quentins script). Office 2010 requires the samba3 hack, I think.

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export WINEPREFIX="/Volumes/HOME/Users/MyUserName/wine/Office2010"
export WINEDEBUG="-all"
cd "/Volumes/HOME/Users/MyUserName/wine/Office2010/drive_c/./Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office14"
source "/Volumes/HOME/Users/MyUserName/wine//tools/samba3/init"
wine EXCEL.EXE "$@"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ekent6 ... e=youtu.be

[iBurger]

I have to say that it is a bit disappointing that nobody knows anything. I did some more research and it seems to be an office problem, more than a wine problem.
The "rapid fire" thing, only happens with office 2010. When use a keyboard tester utility, it seems that the alt key is working normally. (meaning, hold is hold).

My plan is to install ubuntu in a vm, then install wine, and see if the problem also appears on linux.

[iBurger]

Hello hello,

I managed to do an A/B test for Wine on Linux. My problem is no longer there. My conclusion is that there is something wrong in the way the keyboard is recorded OSX. When you press, and hold the CMD key in OSX, this gets translated as a rapid fire. This is not special in OSX. You also see this "hold repeat" (rapidfire) behaviour in the terminal, in OSX.

VIDEOS
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https://youtu.be/3ekent6BYTE (Mac OSX El Capitain - problem)
https://youtu.be/Oz1NPChSMsg (Ubuntu - no problem)


Nb. I hope the devs are not getting to mad that I used POL to install Office 2010. I updated to the most recent version of Wine -- see post above -- and manually ran the program from the shell and the problem still remained. Office 2010 is a bitch to install, honestly, and Pol helped so much here.