Beacuse the Tk/Tcl 8.0 interpreter in Scilab 2.6 (Windows version) which has a bug in responding keyboard & mouse event , we faced a great problem in working out the developer environment.
For example, you type "Smile" in the editor window, interpreter can only recognize part of them. So you might get "Sile" or "mile", even "mle". The poor mouse also meet this problem, if you press certain button, it might be ignored. It gives user very inconvenient impression.
Last year ,when our group is writing the EasyScilab,we have already found this problem.Since it's Scilab's own bug. We can do nothing to fix it. Later we found a very intersting things, that is ,if you move the mouse consistently when you are typing, you will find it more fruently than before. It give us an idea that we can write a program to make the mouse "move" 1 pixel around when the user is typing, and it works. At last, we designed a little tool "SpeedUp" to solve this problem. We put it into a package "vSpeedUp", You can read it in \lib. This tool can help you type fluently and press freely in the TK windows.
We find speedup many bugs this year. First, since it's just a "while" event updating input signal, it will cost a lot of CPU resource. We had tried to "sleep" it for some time in the "while", but the WINDOWS clocking bug makes it impossible. Second, we find that the Scilab will sometimes collide with it. It may cause Scilab to hungup and lost response when it's turned on and you are typing something in the Scilab windows.
We tried to fix them this year, we use an event-catching to watch the mouse moving.Once it moved out of the VrScilab windows, we automatically turn the speedup down. This will help a lot. And since the Scilab Linux version don't have this problem, our program will judge the platform and disable the speedup under linux-----no matter you turn it on or not,it just doesn't work :) .
Although we have try our best , there still be some mistakes during the state "SpeedUp".
So we suggest user don't frequently activate it until the last minute :) We are looking forward to seeing the next version of Scilab which used Wish 8.3 as its Tcl interpreter.