Doesn't seem to work on win11

[quesada]

Tried v 1.0.1, 1.1.0.
Using all possible combinations of 'native api', and 'async'.
tried notepad, kate (windows), lite XL.
None of them work.

Any idea why?

[averms]

Doesn't work for me either when testing out Notepad. I get a few dots and then "Cannot detect reference pattern".

However it does work when testing terminal emulators like Windows Terminal and mintty. It also works when testing editors like GVim although I am getting crazy high latency numbers (40 ms vs 8 ms on Win 10). I'm hoping this is a measurement issue 😩 .

[frarees]

The algorithm used to detect the dots pattern is very fragile and requires the pattern to stay stable through the reading. I've seen some editors where, after a number of dots, the spacing between them is not consistent. One pixel off is enough to make it fail iirc. Font smoothing can also play a role here.

So, a few recommendations:

• Try disabling font smoothing
• Play with font size
• Make sure you're using a monospaced font
• Reduce the number of chars used (this might be useful if you know it stops working after a number of dots)

Ideally, typometer should be able to understand the pattern and account for slight inconsistencies just fine (part of my effort here was to improve on this area, but there was more work that I originally anticipated).