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Offline mavri

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cannot type some characters like { and }
« on: April 25, 2010, 06:53:54 pm »
hi
I'm just starting to use the system (version 8.02 for Windows) with MinGW because the C-free envirnment I used has problems with VISTA
I installed it on my HP laptop Probook 4310s with XP as a first step

The problem experiment is simple but basic for C programming
The editor is not accepting characters like { and } :cry:

On my laptop with italian keyboard I use the combination Alt+nnn for typing the not listed characters
Becouse the separate numeric keyboard I have to do   Fn+Alt+nnn

THis features is ok with all computers and programs I experimented
But the editor of the system is not accepting (at least) the two combination for { and } that are Alt+123 and 125

I experimented all the other combinations and noticed that (very strange) the even numbers are working while the odd numbers are not.
For instance Alt+122 is 'z' and Alt-124 is '|' but there is not 123 and 125 combinations.

I verified that in output a program with various   printf for numerical values in the range are working.

At the moment the only possibility is to use a shortcut for (for instance) struct and then delete the keyword struct and leave the 2 brackets
But this is a workaround and not a solution

Is anyone experimenting the same problem? I would like to test the system in order to use it for my teaching activity
thanks.
Mavri :shock:
« Last Edit: April 27, 2010, 08:19:40 pm by mavri »
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Offline stahta01

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Re: cannot type some characters like { and }
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2010, 07:06:23 pm »
1. Turn off all the C::B Plugins but the Compiler and see if problem goes away.
(If it does turn them on one at a time; to see which one causes problem.)

2. Upgrade to recent nightly build to see if problem goes away

Tim S.
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