From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T11:09:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19268] Re: Ruby/Tk: how to discard excess messages

Hi, Nat.
Just checked on my linux box and I get a keypressed/keyrelease combo sent 
continuously while the key is depressed.  Perhaps you are on Windows?  If so, 
then we have discovered yet another reason why Ruby/Tk scripts aren't 
portable.
>
> Once you have received a KeyPressed event for a particular key, ignore
> further KeyPressed events for the same key until you receive a KeyReleased
> event for that key.  An auto-repeating key sends multiple KeyPressed events
> without any KeyReleased events until the user actually releases the key.