Hello, I'm having a small but annoying issue with keyboard input in the BaseX GUI on a new MacBook (M1 Pro). I tend to use the U.S. International keyboard layout for ease of typing accented characters: e.g., using the apostrophe/quotation key as a dead key when typing é or ü. However, with this keyboard layout, the apos/quot key doesn't register at all in the BaseX GUI. It works as expected everywhere else. I've tried switching fonts, but that doesn't seem to help. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Tim
Hi Tim,
I just tried what you described on a M1. Using 'International - PC' as keyboard layout and pressing three keys, namely 'SHIFT' + 'QUOT' + 'A' gives me the following behaviour:
Terminal-App (and other apps):
App | Keys | Description -------------|-----------|----------------------------------------------- Terminal-App | SHIFT | (nothing happens) | " | a double quot sign (") in a (yellow) highlighted square | a | the german umlaut a (ä) on default background appears
In BaseXGUI:
App | Keys | Description -------------|-----------|----------------------------------------------- BaseXGUI | SHIFT | (nothing happens) | " | (nothing happens) | a | the german umlaut a (ä) on default background appears
So it seems that the indication / user feedback is missing in BaseXGUI, but the umlaut character can nevertheless be entered.
Do you experience the same? Alex
Thanks, Alex. That's right, the accented character can be entered, but the quot/apos key itself can't be entered, so I can type ä, but not "ä". Is that the case for you too?
Tim
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 3:05 PM Alexander Holupirek alex@holupirek.de wrote:
Hello, I'm having a small but annoying issue with keyboard input in the
BaseX GUI on a new MacBook (M1 Pro). I tend to use the U.S. International keyboard layout for ease of typing accented characters: e.g., using the apostrophe/quotation key as a dead key when typing é or ü. However, with this keyboard layout, the apos/quot key doesn't register at all in the BaseX GUI. It works as expected everywhere else. I've tried switching fonts, but that doesn't seem to help. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Tim
Hi Tim,
I just tried what you described on a M1. Using 'International - PC' as keyboard layout and pressing three keys, namely 'SHIFT' + 'QUOT' + 'A' gives me the following behaviour:
Terminal-App (and other apps):
App | Keys | Description -------------|-----------|----------------------------------------------- Terminal-App | SHIFT | (nothing happens) | " | a double quot sign (") in a (yellow) highlighted square | a | the german umlaut a (ä) on default background appears
In BaseXGUI:
App | Keys | Description -------------|-----------|----------------------------------------------- BaseXGUI | SHIFT | (nothing happens) | " | (nothing happens) | a | the german umlaut a (ä) on default background appears
So it seems that the indication / user feedback is missing in BaseXGUI, but the umlaut character can nevertheless be entered.
Do you experience the same? Alex
You're right, Tim, I can not enter the quot/apos as well. I think we can file a bug report for this.
Meanwhile it may be an option for you to use "ABC - Extended" as keyboard layout. It uses the combinations, eg. "OPTION + U + A" for ä and "OPTION + E + E" for é. Double and single quote works in BaseXGUI as well.
Alex
On 7. Mar 2022, at 21:27, Tim Thompson timathom@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Alex. That's right, the accented character can be entered, but the quot/apos key itself can't be entered, so I can type ä, but not "ä". Is that the case for you too?
Tim
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 3:05 PM Alexander Holupirek alex@holupirek.de wrote:
Hello, I'm having a small but annoying issue with keyboard input in the BaseX GUI on a new MacBook (M1 Pro). I tend to use the U.S. International keyboard layout for ease of typing accented characters: e.g., using the apostrophe/quotation key as a dead key when typing é or ü. However, with this keyboard layout, the apos/quot key doesn't register at all in the BaseX GUI. It works as expected everywhere else. I've tried switching fonts, but that doesn't seem to help. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Tim
Hi Tim,
I just tried what you described on a M1. Using 'International - PC' as keyboard layout and pressing three keys, namely 'SHIFT' + 'QUOT' + 'A' gives me the following behaviour:
Terminal-App (and other apps):
App | Keys | Description -------------|-----------|----------------------------------------------- Terminal-App | SHIFT | (nothing happens) | " | a double quot sign (") in a (yellow) highlighted square | a | the german umlaut a (ä) on default background appears
In BaseXGUI:
App | Keys | Description -------------|-----------|----------------------------------------------- BaseXGUI | SHIFT | (nothing happens) | " | (nothing happens) | a | the german umlaut a (ä) on default background appears
So it seems that the indication / user feedback is missing in BaseXGUI, but the umlaut character can nevertheless be entered.
Do you experience the same? Alex
Thanks again! I'll switch to ABC - Extended.
Tim
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 4:04 PM Alexander Holupirek alex@holupirek.de wrote:
You're right, Tim, I can not enter the quot/apos as well. I think we can file a bug report for this.
Meanwhile it may be an option for you to use "ABC - Extended" as keyboard layout. It uses the combinations, eg. "OPTION + U + A" for ä and "OPTION + E + E" for é. Double and single quote works in BaseXGUI as well.
Alex
On 7. Mar 2022, at 21:27, Tim Thompson timathom@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Alex. That's right, the accented character can be entered, but
the quot/apos key itself can't be entered, so I can type ä, but not "ä". Is that the case for you too?
Tim
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 3:05 PM Alexander Holupirek alex@holupirek.de
wrote:
Hello, I'm having a small but annoying issue with keyboard input in
the BaseX GUI on a new MacBook (M1 Pro). I tend to use the U.S. International keyboard layout for ease of typing accented characters: e.g., using the apostrophe/quotation key as a dead key when typing é or ü. However, with this keyboard layout, the apos/quot key doesn't register at all in the BaseX GUI. It works as expected everywhere else. I've tried switching fonts, but that doesn't seem to help. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Tim
Hi Tim,
I just tried what you described on a M1. Using 'International - PC' as
keyboard layout and pressing three keys, namely 'SHIFT' + 'QUOT' + 'A' gives me the following behaviour:
Terminal-App (and other apps):
App | Keys | Description -------------|-----------|----------------------------------------------- Terminal-App | SHIFT | (nothing happens) | " | a double quot sign (") in a (yellow)
highlighted square
| a | the german umlaut a (ä) on default backgroundappears
In BaseXGUI:
App | Keys | Description -------------|-----------|----------------------------------------------- BaseXGUI | SHIFT | (nothing happens) | " | (nothing happens) | a | the german umlaut a (ä) on default background
appears
So it seems that the indication / user feedback is missing in BaseXGUI,
but the umlaut character can nevertheless be entered.
Do you experience the same? Alex
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