[Lazarus] Lazarus code editor improvement?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 09:10:07 +0100, Bo Berglund via lazarus
<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

>On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 13:31:21 +0100, Joe via lazarus
><lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>>> So indeed it is connected with VNC, but it also is connected with
>>> Lazarus' code editor window. It seems like this is the only affected
>>> window on the RPi, all others accept the composition key AltGr as part
>>> of entering a special char.
>>>
>>> I cannot use the direct connection, though, because I am heavily
>>> depending on being able to copy stuff across between the two systems
>>> and I also need to have access to my other tools on the Windows
>>> computer. So I have to stick with VNC anyway and work around the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> And back again to Lazarus 2.0.6...
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Please look at  issue 0030544 on https://bugs.freepascal.org. If I 
>>remember correctly, Mattias eventually found the reason and fixed it. 
>>Don't know why the problerm rearises...
>
>I had to revisit this issue and found the bugtracker mention above.
>It turns out that using Ctrl-Alt as a compose key combination instead
>of AltGr I get the correct characters also in a RealVNC connection to
>the RPi where Lazarus is running. 
>Tested these: [ ] { } | $ ? \ ~ @ £
>
>The Lazarus code editor switches me to the tab next left when I use
>AltGr so all I enter afterwards gets into the wrong file...
>
>I just have to remember NOT to use AltGr in the Lazarus code editor
>when working through VNC in the future....
>

AGAIN RETURNING TO THIS THREAD to report new finding...
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When I was working on my development on Raspberry Pi4B via VNC I was
doing so from a Windows 7 Pro x64 laptop.
Now, for the last few weeks I have migrated to a new laptop running
Windows 10 Pro x64.
I have not changed anything on the RPi4 and I have moved settings etc
over from the old laptop to the new as I was installing all of the
software including VNC.

Then I have finally connected by VNC to the RPi4 to continue the work
over there.

Amazingly, now without changing a thing on the RPi4 the issues I have
been hit by earlier when using "special chars" are gone!
There is no tab change or anything like that anymore!

The only conclusion I can draw is that the VNC client version I
installed on the new laptop (6.19.1115 x64) from Nov 2019 contains a
fix for the reported problem!
The old laptop had VNC version 6.0.1 x64 from Nov 2016....


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden