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ID Category Severity Reproducibility Date Submitted Last Update
0007296 [DCSS] Bug Report major always 2013-07-02 23:19 2014-01-10 16:12
Reporter Helmschank View Status public  
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Priority normal Resolution open  
Status new   Product Branch 0.13 ancient branch
Summary 0007296: SHIFT and CTRL do not work on Android keyboards
Description I have an ASUS TF101 and a TF700 infinity. When using the keyboard dock for the tablet the SHIFT and CTRL keys are not recognized. CTRL could be mitigated, but this bug is major since SHIFT is needed to even just save the game.

This error is present in the 0.12 release as well as the current 0.13 development builds.
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- Relationships
related to 0007803new Can't use or map the "ctrl", "alt", and "shift" keys 

-  Notes
(0023375)
qoala (reporter)
2013-07-03 01:07

Crawl has some prefix keys for simulating modifiers when they're not available:

Pressing [/] before another key simulates SHIFT.
Pressing [*] before another key simulates CTRL.

This is still probably a valid concern, but this should make it easier to play for the moment.
(0023377)
Helmschank (reporter)
2013-07-03 02:09

These shortcuts are valid, except that I cannot do [*] for CTRL because it requires SHIFT and the [8] key, and using [/] is not chorded.
(0023378)
Helmschank (reporter)
2013-07-03 02:09
edited on: 2013-07-03 02:12

Also, I just discovered that BACKSPACE is not recognized either. There are some difficulties related to SHIFT and other keys as well, such as when a capital 'Y' or 'N' are required to a game question.

(0023613)
campbebj (reporter)
2013-08-01 16:37

There is no working workaround for this. and it is preventing me from playing on my android devices.

It seems to recognize each key on the keyboard as a hardware key and not check for modifiers such as shift ctrl or alt.
(0023614)
KiloByte (manager)
2013-08-01 18:04

Same on Omega OAN133. Shift, ctrl, backspace, etc, don't work.

Even worse, there's an "Ab" icon that, upon clicking, displays "Tap to start typing, press Back when done" which blocks the game with no apparent way out.
(0024961)
thefishinthepot (reporter)
2014-01-10 16:12

Can duplicate. Released 0.13 on Nexus 7, Kitkat 4.4.2.

It's possible to play with a mix of keyboard and on-screen controls, but it's not practical with either one alone because of the keyboard limitations.

- Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2013-07-02 23:19 Helmschank New Issue
2013-07-03 01:07 qoala Note Added: 0023375
2013-07-03 02:09 Helmschank Note Added: 0023377
2013-07-03 02:09 Helmschank Note Added: 0023378
2013-07-03 02:12 Helmschank Note Edited: 0023378
2013-08-01 16:37 campbebj Note Added: 0023613
2013-08-01 18:04 KiloByte Note Added: 0023614
2013-12-01 16:41 neil Relationship added related to 0007803
2014-01-10 16:12 thefishinthepot Note Added: 0024961


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