[Rpcemu] RPC Emu 0.8.14 on OS X High Sierra

[Gerald Holdsworth]

Hi all,

I recently upgraded my Mac to High Sierra and for some reason, whether it did this during the upgrade, or something else happened, but the settings for my RPCEmu install got changed. I noticed that the mouse pointer was laggy - turns out that ‘Reduce CPU usage’ had been ticked. Another thing I notice is that I can no longer get a RISC OS menu up (I used to use the two-finger tap on the touchpad for this).
I have tried deselecting ‘Grab all Hot-keys’ (not sure what this does, to be honest) and ‘Two button mode’, resetting RPCEmu each time, but these make no difference.
A three button tap looks like it is just the same as a single button tap (would this be the equivalent of Adjust click?)

Also, and this is a separate issue to that above as this has always been like this, why do I have to actually click the track pad on RPCEmu when every other application on my Mac is just a tap (I’ve configured it this way to save wear and tear on the track pad)?

It has RISC OS 5.24 installed, but not sure what date as I can’t get the menu up to see! ;-)

Cheers,

Gerald.

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www.reptonresourcepage.co.uk

[David Pitt]

Post by Gerald Holdsworth
I recently upgraded my Mac to High Sierra and for some reason, whether it
did this during the upgrade, or something else happened, but the settings
for my RPCEmu install got changed. I noticed that the mouse pointer was
laggy - turns out that ‘Reduce CPU usage’ had been ticked.

I am now on Mojave and I don't see that here on my iMac, nor did I
previously on High Sierra, the mouse pointer is fine with ‘Reduce CPU
usage’. It is however a real mouse. Previously I used a Magic Mouse with
MagicPrefs and that was also OK.

Post by Gerald Holdsworth
Another thing I notice is that I can no longer get a RISC OS menu up (I
used to use the two-finger tap on the touchpad for this).

Direct Menu and Adjust clicks are a casualty. The work around is alt-Select
for Menu and ctrl-Select for Adjust. I don't have a track pad here to see
how that would go.

HTH.

[Gerald Holdsworth]

Aha - using the Alt and Ctrl keys work.

Thank you.

Gerald.

From the MacBook Air of Gerald Holdsworth
www.geraldholdsworth.co.uk
www.reptonresourcepage.co.uk

Post by David Pitt

Post by Gerald Holdsworth
I recently upgraded my Mac to High Sierra and for some reason, whether it
did this during the upgrade, or something else happened, but the settings
for my RPCEmu install got changed. I noticed that the mouse pointer was
laggy - turns out that ‘Reduce CPU usage’ had been ticked.

I am now on Mojave and I don't see that here on my iMac, nor did I
previously on High Sierra, the mouse pointer is fine with ‘Reduce CPU
usage’. It is however a real mouse. Previously I used a Magic Mouse with
MagicPrefs and that was also OK.

Post by Gerald Holdsworth
Another thing I notice is that I can no longer get a RISC OS menu up (I
used to use the two-finger tap on the touchpad for this).

Direct Menu and Adjust clicks are a casualty. The work around is alt-Select
for Menu and ctrl-Select for Adjust. I don't have a track pad here to see
how that would go.
HTH.
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[Theo Markettos]

Post by Gerald Holdsworth
Aha - using the Alt and Ctrl keys work.

For what it's worth, it might be worth trying the new Qt version of RPCEmu,
for which someone has fixed the keyboard issues on MacOS:
https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=15360

I haven't tried it, but I would expect a lot of the problems caused by the
old RPCEmu using ancient Carbon APIs to be improved.

(for the record, that thread says someone submitted a patch to the mailing
list which was waiting for approval. So it's presumably stuck in the
moderation queue, if moderators haven't yet dealt with it)

Theo

[Gerald Holdsworth]

Hi Theo,

I did have a read through that thread prior to posting this email - at the moment I’m not into compiling the binaries, mainly due to my MacBook Air only having 128GB storage (of which nearly half is used, through constant removal of unneeded data every month). However, I should be getting myself a second hand Pro with a 500GB hard drive, so these problems will magically go away (to be replaced with a slower data access speed).

Cheers,

Gerald.

From the MacBook Air of Gerald Holdsworth
www.geraldholdsworth.co.uk
www.reptonresourcepage.co.uk

Post by Theo Markettos

Post by Gerald Holdsworth
Aha - using the Alt and Ctrl keys work.

For what it's worth, it might be worth trying the new Qt version of RPCEmu,
https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=15360
I haven't tried it, but I would expect a lot of the problems caused by the
old RPCEmu using ancient Carbon APIs to be improved.
(for the record, that thread says someone submitted a patch to the mailing
list which was waiting for approval. So it's presumably stuck in the
moderation queue, if moderators haven't yet dealt with it)
Theo
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[Theo Markettos]

Post by Gerald Holdsworth
Hi Theo,
I did have a read through that thread prior to posting this email - at the
moment I’m not into compiling the binaries, mainly due to my MacBook Air
only having 128GB storage (of which nearly half is used, through constant
removal of unneeded data every month). However, I should be getting
myself a second hand Pro with a 500GB hard drive, so these problems will
magically go away (to be replaced with a slower data access speed).

Oh, I thought in that forest of links they had released a binary - my
mistake. Maybe they can be prodded into doing so?

(there isn't an official release process for the Mac versions of RPCEmu,
because Peter and Matthew don't have a Mac, and the Allegro version of
RPCEmu needed some horribleness done to add the ancient Carbon to XCode to
make it build. It should be a lot easier with Qt, but at the end of the day
it still needs someone with a Mac to push builds out the door)

Theo