Free42 with IEEE 754-2008 decimal floating-point -- interested in a sneak preview?

[Thomas Okken]

(03-04-2014 03:12 PM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  

(03-04-2014 10:30 AM)fhub Wrote:  If I switch from Free42 to any other open window with Alt-Tab, and then switch back again to Free42, then the program doesn't accept keystrokes on the PC-keyboard anymore

This is a bug in Windows. [...] I verified this by running the Windows XP version of Microsoft Paint under Windows 7.

I just took another look at this, and it looks like this isn't a bug in Windows Vista/7/8 per se, but rather a bug in the newer Windows "themes". I use Windows 7 with the Windows Classic theme, a.k.a. the Windows 95/98/2000 look, and the bug doesn't happen there. When I press Alt, I see the little underlines under the menu titles appear, and when I then press Tab before releasing Alt, the application switch takes place, *and* the little underlines disappear from Freee42's menu bar, which would seem to indicate that it did receive a second Alt-key event.

I didn't notice the "twitch" in the 1/X key when pressing Shift under Windows XP, which is interesting, but maybe that has something to do with me running XP in a VM, which could mean that the screen is updating too slowly for that phenomenon to be noticeable. Either way, *this* isn't related to the choice of theme under Windows 7, because I see that twitch plain as day in Windows 7, even though I'm using the Windows Classic theme.