| Summary: | With NumLock off in Numpad, then with Alt pressed the Num Pad arrow keys should not operate | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Alistair Saywell <saywellaj> |
| Component: | LibreOffice | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | buzea.bogdan |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.4.7.2 release | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Windows (All) | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156443 | ||
| Whiteboard: | target:24.8.0 target:24.2.1 | ||
| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 98259 | ||
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Description
Alistair Saywell
2024-01-09 08:51:43 UTC
Since the feature is Windows-only, isn't it a bug in Windows OS? Who handles the combination Alt+keypad_num? OS or application? If it is OS, keycodes corresponding to Alt and associated (numeric) key should not be passed to application until the full character encoding has been parsed and translated. Anyway, fixing this anomalous behaviour should have no impact on other OSes, notably it should not prevent assigning user shortcuts with Alt+keypad_num, whether or not NumLock is set. The recent change (7.6.2.1) to apply LibreOffice UI shortcuts with Alt+single digit shows that the program can override the OS shortcut. Those Alt+single digit shortcuts override the hard-coded Windows shortcuts for Alt+0 to 9 of ○☺☻♥♦♣♠•◘ where they have been applied. It is not a bug in the OS, but rather it seems a choice for the program. LibreOffice has chosen both options of moving the cursor and inserting the character giving a worse result for the user than just choosing one. Confirm. Likely, the place to check / fix is ImplHandleKeyMsg in vcl/win/window/salframe.cxx Will be fixed by https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/161891. Mike Kaganski committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/772da0f1aa6891a0b31d45d99a5978c65ed24e34 tdf#156443, tdf#159079, tdf#158112: support Windows Alt codes >=256 It will be available in 24.8.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback. Mike Kaganski committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-24-2": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/45023ae9619cdc4332afb8f743d1695a23e8d866 tdf#156443, tdf#159079, tdf#158112: support Windows Alt codes >=256 It will be available in 24.2.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback. |