I gave it a test on my system (GIMP 2.8.22; Windows 10 64-bit, native 'Touch Keyboard' ) and witnessed the following:
- When a GUI control has the focus (e.g. text input box in any toolbox), everything works normally. - When the main image canvas/window has the focus, only *character* keys seem to work; *navigation* keys (arrows, backspace) do not. Spacebar does not work either, and this one's kind of critical to have when actually performing text entry. - For the Text tool specifically, its on-canvas toolbox elements work fine but general text entry has the above-mentioned problem (the lack of a responding Spacebar renders the OSK practically worthless here). - Keyboard shortcuts work normally (e.g. Ctwl+W to close active window, P to switch to Paintbrush). However, only Ctrl and/or Shift based shortcuts work as the OSK does not feature an Alt key; you cannot, for example, move between image tabs/windows with their default mappings. For a comparison, I tested the OSK in Inkscape and could not find any problems whatsoever, although the OSK does not include a row for Function keys (used to switch tools). On an aside, I noticed that when selecting certain tools via keyboard (Perspective, Scale, Shear, etc.) they 'activate' (i.e. canvas overlay and settings dialog appears) immediately and the dialog receives focus (i.e. you cannot switch off the tool using keyboard). This does not happen when selecting tools via mouse -- is that a bug? It can be worked around quickly enough by cancelling the tool's dialogue but mind that the OSK does not include an Esc key. -- Stratadrake strata_ran...@hotmail.com -------------------- Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. ________________________________ From: gimp-user-list <gimp-user-list-boun...@gnome.org> on behalf of Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmott...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2017 7:43:27 PM To: Ringbat Cc: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Microsoft on-screen keyboard doesn't work with gimp 2.8 Hello! On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Ringbat via gimp-user-list <gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > Microsoft on screen keyboard doesn't seem to work using gimp. I use the > keyboard with a mouse due to my disability. I am working on a Windows 7 > platform using gimp 2.8. Any ideas where I can go to get advice or better > still a workaround. I have tried at the on-screen keyboards , but I seem to > get the same problem. Have you tried any other program using the GTK+ toolkit by any chance? Do you have the same issue there? Also what doesn't work exactly? The on-screen keyboard does not pop up when your cursor enter a text field? It pops up but it won't write into the field? Jehan > Thanks for reading. > > Ringbat > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gimp.1065349.n5.nabble.com/Users-f3.html > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list -- ZeMarmot open animation film http://film.zemarmot.net Patreon: https://patreon.com/zemarmot Tipeee: https://www.tipeee.com/zemarmot _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
