Exception thrown with auxiliary keyboard keys and knobs

[CalvinWilkinson]

Summary

When using auxiliary keys or knobs on a keyboard, the application crashes. At first, I thought it was something in my library Velaptor, but after some investigation, I discovered that an InvalidOperationException is being thrown from the Reset() method in the ViewImplementationBase abstract class in the Silk.NET.Windowing.Internals namespace.

I know this is because I looked into the internal exception being thrown in Velaptor, and the exception message is You cannot call 'Reset' inside of the render loop!. I found this by searching in the Silk source code for tag v2.22.0.

When I say 'auxiliary', I mean custom keyboard keys and knobs that are used for volume, mute, skipping songs, etc.
I have a mechanical keyboard and my laptop keyboard, which have some aux keys and/or knobs that cause the exception to be thrown.

Since Velaptor is open source, you can run the VelaptorTesting project. Once the window is displayed, adjust the audio knob on a keyboard that has one, and it should crash. I attempted to see if the problem would occur in the Imgui sample project, but I had issues with errors being thrown by nuke. I am confident you can reproduce the issue with the Silk example projects.

I subscribe to a keyboard key-down event of an IInputContext instance. I set a breakpoint in my event handler, but it is not invoked. It simply immediately throws an exception.

Steps to reproduce

• Platform: Desktop
• Framework Version: dotnet 9.0
• API: OpenGL
• API Version: OpenGL 4.5 Core

1. Open the solution for the latest version tag of Velaptor or a Silk sample project.
2. Run the VelaptorTesting project or a Silk sample project
3. Adjust the volume knob or hit an aux key on a keyboard that has a this functionality.
4. Observe that an exception is thrown.

Comments

The screenshots below are the knobs and keys that are causing the exception:

More Info:

1. MONTECH Mechanical Keyboard
2. [Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 Laptop](I know this is because I looked into the internal exception being thrown in Velaptor, and the exception message is You cannot call 'Reset' inside of the render loop!. I found this by searching in the Silk source code for tag v2.22.0.)

Note

This is not just a volume knob. It can be used for other functions on the keyboard, such as the lighting.
Hitting the volume up and down on my laptop keyboard causes the same issue.

If you need more information or testing, let me know, and I would be glad to help. Thanks!!

If you know how to fix this issue, please submit a pull request instead!

[Perksey]

Do you have a stack trace

[CalvinWilkinson]

Sure thing @Perksey

System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
 ---> System.InvalidOperationException: You cannot call `Reset` inside of the render loop!
   at Silk.NET.Windowing.Internals.ViewImplementationBase.Reset()
   at Silk.NET.Windowing.Internals.ViewImplementationBase.Dispose()
   at InvokeStub_IDisposable.Dispose(Object, Object, IntPtr*)
   at System.Reflection.MethodBaseInvoker.InvokeWithNoArgs(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Reflection.MethodBaseInvoker.InvokeWithNoArgs(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
   at System.Reflection.MethodBase.Invoke(Object obj, Object[] parameters)
   at Velaptor.InternalExtensionMethods.DisposeOfType(Container container, Type type) in K:\SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT\PERSONAL\Velaptor\Velaptor\InternalExtensionMethods.cs:line 248
   at Velaptor.IoC.DisposeOfRegisteredTypes() in K:\SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT\PERSONAL\Velaptor\Velaptor\IoC.cs:line 91
   at Velaptor.UI.Window.DisposeOfRegisteredTypes() in K:\SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT\PERSONAL\Velaptor\Velaptor\UI\Window.cs:line 302
   at Velaptor.UI.Window.Dispose(Boolean disposing) in K:\SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT\PERSONAL\Velaptor\Velaptor\UI\Window.cs:line 295
   at Velaptor.UI.Window.Dispose() in K:\SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT\PERSONAL\Velaptor\Velaptor\UI\Window.cs:line 199
   at VelaptorTesting.Program.Main(String[] args) in K:\SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT\PERSONAL\Velaptor\Testing\VelaptorTesting\Program.cs:line 101
   at VelaptorTesting.Program.<Main>(String[] args)