Special keys in keyman touch layout

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#1

I saw a ’ K_LOPT ’ special key in touch layout of keyman to open menu. Which are the other special key codes in similar category.

Which key code uses to hide touch layout ?

Which key code uses to toogle touch keyboard layouts without pop up menu ?

Which key code uses in touch layout to trigger android’s change keyboard menu ?

#2

I did a search of our help and realised that the K_LOPT key id is not documented. I’ve added an issue internally to get that documented.

There are only two special keys:

  1. K_LOPT shows the keyboard menu or switches keyboards
  2. K_ROPT dismisses/hides the keyboard

The K_LOPT keyboard has slightly different semantics on iOS and Android. On iOS, a touch will swap to the next keyboard, and longpress will bring up a menu. On Android, touching the key will open the keyboard menu. In Keyman 11 on Android, the menu has an additional option to switch to a non-Keyman keyboard (missing in version 10). Longpress does not currently have a meaning on this key on Android.

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#3

K_ROPT only appears to work to hide the keyboard iOS 14.3 in the Keyman App itself. It doesn’t appear to work elsewhere. Is this a known issue or is ig something I could work around?

#4

@joshua_horton is this a known issue?

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#5

Probably not. Admittedly, I’ve never tested for it; I don’t think I’ve seen that key used on many, if any, actively-distributed keyboards.

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#6

I’ve documented this as an issue here so we don’t lose track of it: https://github.com/keymanapp/keyman/issues/4438