The Keyman keyboard layout I compiled and installed a few days ago does not work in :
a) IrfanView 4.70 64bit
b) MPC-BE 1.7.2
c) AIMP 5.30
It does work as expected in the following applications:
a) Windows Explorer (Windows file manager)
b) Windows Console (CMD) and Windows Terminal
c) Cygwin mintty terminal
d) vim (Cygwin vim in mintty, and Windows binary gvim)
e) Notepad
f) Microsoft Word
g) Brave and Firefox web browsers, including email clients like gmail)
e) BabelPad
In IrfanView, pressing any key a-z0-9, Space, or just Shift alone, throws out IrfanView from the Fullscreen view into the window view, instead of causing an expected behavior. In the window view, pressing any such key has no effect.
The only keys that work are the arrow keys, Backspace, Function keys, and Ctrl+letter/number combinations. They work as expected.
Pressing F2 in IrfanView opens up, as expected, a ‘rename the image’ dialog window and in that window the keyboard works: key stroke combinations emit correct Unicode characters. This is the only part of IrfanView where I observed the keyboard working.
In media player MPC-BE and in audio player AIMP there are very few a-z0-9 and SPACE keyboard shortcuts and the symptoms are the same as described above: pressing any of those keys has no effect.
These two applications use only very few such shortcuts thus the issue I am describing is not critical.
In IrfanView, however, inability to use a-z0-9, Space, Shift keys, to my great regret, renders the application useless.
Since this is an application my work heavily relies upon, I would like to ask anybody about your experience re. using Keyman keyboards with applications like IrfanView. Any information or assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Additional information:
the operating system: fully updated Windows 11 64 bit
Keyman Developer and Keyman — both 17.0.335
The keyboard layout was obtained by converting in Keyman Developer the .KLC source of my custom Windows keymap. With the original Windows keymap all applications work as expected.