Hello Richard,
Thanks for your tests. I am using Windows 7 professional not 10. And gimp 2.8.
20. The OSK keyboard does have function keys, but you have to press FN key to
review them. Also my space bar works when I enter a text field. The keyboard
does have Esc key. In fact, it's the first key on my keyboard.
I have not tried taking the focus from the main canvas window. But I'm not sure
how that will work.
I have tried one other virtual keyboard, but it seems the result is the same.
If one of you guys can suggest a workaround which did not involve me in
learning C basic or any other programming language, I would be very grateful.
(Not meant as a sarcastic response).
Steve
From: Richard <[email protected]>
To: Jehan Pagès <[email protected]>; Ringbat
<[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, 26 November 2017, 17:44
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Microsoft on-screen keyboard doesn't work with gimp
2.8
#yiv2724570901 #yiv2724570901 -- P
{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}#yiv2724570901 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.
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From: gimp-user-list <[email protected]> on behalf of Jehan
Pagès <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2017 7:43:27 PM
To: Ringbat
Cc: [email protected]
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
<[email protected]> 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
>
>
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