Keyboard & mouse not working on ubuntu 11.10

Keyboard & mouse not working on ubuntu 11.10

Losiowaty

Member #13,930

January 2012

Hi everybody,
For my class assignment I had to write a paint-like program in C++ using Allegro. I had to use 4.2 version, as all assignments need to be run on class computer with Solaris 6 and Allegro4.2 installed.
Anyhow - to the problem : When I had a piece of working code I tested in on the target machine and everything worked fine (i.e. drawing lines and shapes with mouse, choosing tools with keys), but after I added some lines the program stopped responding to mouse and keyboard(mouse is also not shown), both on my Ubuntu 11.10 and target Solaris... It works fine od Windows7, the install_mouse/keyboard() functions return succes, mouse/keyboard_needs_poll return false. I tried commenting out a piece of code so that it would only print info to terminal when user pressed a button, but no luck.

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  1
  2#include <allegro.h>
  3#include <vector>
  4#include <time.h>
  5#include <sstream>
  6
  7int main(){
  8
  9//all the variables are defined here
 10    allegro_init();
 11    install_mouse();
 12    install_timer();
 13    install_keyboard();
 14    set_color_depth(32);
 15    gfxStatus = set_gfx_mode( GFX_AUTODETECT_WINDOWED,800,600,0,0);
 16    if (gfxStatus == 0) {
 17        clear_to_color(screen, WHITE);
 18        gui_fg_color = D_GREY;
 19        gui_bg_color = L_GREY;
 20
 21        srand(time(NULL));
 22
 23        for (int i = 0; i < 11; i++) historia[i] = create_bitmap(SCREEN_W, SCREEN_H - 50);
 24
 25        show_mouse(screen);
 26        while (!exit){ //petla glowna
 27            if (key[KEY_ESC]) { //wyjscie
 28                //a lot of other key options here, basically doing the same -> changing current tool
 29            if ((mouse_b & (1 | 2)) && (mouse_y > 50)) { 
 30                //mouse action here
 31            } else if ((mouse_b & (1 | 2)) && (mouse_y < 50)) { //user dziala na 
 32            //special mouse action here
 33} //koniec if od myszki
 34        } //koniec petli glownej
 35    } else { //koniec if gfxStatus
 36        std::cerr << "Allegro error!\n" << allegro_error << "\n";
 37    }
 38
 39
 40    return 0;
 41}
 42END_OF_MAIN(); ///Makro z allegro

While writing this post I had an idea -> could it be that time.h is messing up with allegros timer?

Anyway, I'd be gratefull for any help.

Edgar Reynaldo

Major Reynaldo

May 2007

It may have something to do with resource locks of some sort - do you ever use acquire_screen / release_screen at all? If you acquire and don't release, it may block input. Do you ever call read_key? That function blocks until there is a keypress in the queue. We probably need to see more code - and if you post more, try to fix the formatting first (your indentation is not consistent).

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Losiowaty

Member #13,930

January 2012

I solved the issue ;] The problem was non-allegro. I simply called sleep(200); thinkning that it took miliseconds, when it takes seconds, so it stopped my program for about 3 minutes! My bad here ;]

Anyway - thanks for the replay and ideas!