Cataclysm-dda: (Android) Keyboard buggy

[11A10P]

When i press the back button on my phone the keyboard pops up. Then i press for example s to smash the keyboard doesnt dissappear, i have to press the back button again to make it dissapear. Then if i open up the keyboard again, and press for example V, it asks me to chose a direction to smash. Its like the game is remembering my last keypresses and keeps them active. When i spam a lot of keys i see the keys stack up in my keyboarda suggestion bar.

This started happening once i downloaded the APK from the website where it automaticly uploads apks of the newest version of the game.

When i was playing the Google Play version of CleverRaven with beta tester rogram it didnt happen, it was the stablest version.

Ill stick to the Google Play version for now, its just very outdated.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Start the game.
2. Open up the keyboard.
3. Press a key, it reacts.
4. Open up the keyboard again.
5. Press another key it repeats the key before this one.

The game remembers last keypress and repeats it no matter what other key i press.

Screenshots wouldnt help.

Versions and configuration

Downloaded 0.D 9943 from http://dev.narc.ro/cataclysm/jenkins-latest/Android/Tiles/
Ingame it shows 0.D 9735

• OS: Emui 9
• Game Version: 0.D 9735 - gc3982c9
• Graphics version: Terminal i think
• Mods loaded: Doesnt matter what mods. Happens anyway

Additional context

Game ruining, head spinning problem. Take your time, love you, devs. HUGE KUDOS

[ZhilkinSerg]

Possibly related to https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/24363. Please try toghling new option in prelaunch menu from #35623 and see if it helps.

[11A10P]

Didnt help :/,its really game breaking.

[ZhilkinSerg]

Please try latest version and report if issue is resolved.

[luther7718]

This issue is not resolved for me on version 9955 on Android 9

Edit: I'm currently using software rendering with exclusive fullscreen disabled

[HudsonMC16]

Still present on 10110, 64-bit, but I've found that occasionally using the "@" symbol from the phone pop-up keyboard (not in-game shortcuts) causes the keyboard input to work as expected again.

[Don4-bit]

Still present in 10272, armabi.

Expected behavior: push a virtual keyboard key, key is sent to app.
Actual behavior: push a keyboard key, is not sent to cataclysm app. However, if you then tap one of the autocomplete suggestions, that is sent. Sometimes. It's wierd.

Attempted with force full screen and without; same behavior.
Using ZTE phone android ver. 7.1.1.1.

[ZhilkinSerg]

That's on keyboard app. Try disabling autocomplete suggestions there.

[11A10P]

If i understood it correctly, you press a key for example e, it acts as you
pressed the key before?

If that is the case, i found a fix on it, just spam the key that opens
symbols and the number row. Spam that a bit, close the keyboard open it up
again, and press a symbol, i use @. Fiddle around with it, that should work.

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 18:52 Don4-bit [e-mail] wrote:

Still present in 10272, armabi.

Expected behavior: push a virtual keyboard key, key is sent to app.
Actual behavior: push a keyboard key, is not sent to cataclysm app.
However, if you then tap one of the autocomplete suggestions, that is sent.

Attempted with force full screen and without; same behavior.
Using ZTE phone android ver. 7.1.1.1.

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[Don4-bit]

That's on keyboard app. Try disabling autocomplete suggestions there.

I still have a cataclysm experimental installed from prior last September, and the keyboard works fine. It's not the keyboard.

But I tried disabling autocomplete anyway, and it didn't change the key not being sent. Though now if I hit return it does send all keys pressed prior to return at the same time.(testing with default character name field in options so I see this happen) but return is itself not sent. if I press return without typing anything else,nothing happens, keyboard remains open, cataclysm registers no key press.

Tested this in prior September experimental, without autofill suggestions, and all variations of keypress work correctly. no change in behavior with or without autocomplete. Is there a way to make that the behavior again in current experimentals?

[Don4-bit]

If i understood it correctly, you press a key for example e, it acts as you pressed the key before? If that is the case, i found a fix on it, just spam the key that opens symbols and the number row. Spam that a bit, close the keyboard open it up again, and press a symbol, i use @. Fiddle around with it, that should work.
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Er, no. It doesn't input anything. If I fiddle with numbers and symbols like you suggested, it sometimes does register but it's hit or miss, and only for that instance. The next time I use the keyboard it fails again.

[chriseich21]

So SwiftKey keyboard used to automatically send input and did not save previous commands in the autocorrect, so I think this still needs to be resolved. I don't feel turning off autocorrect or switching keyboards is a sufficient long term solution.

However, I did want to mention that in the meantime Hackers Keyboard and Codeboard work fine and you should be able to quick switch when your default keyboard is open. I figured turning your autocorrect on and off everytime or deleting your previous commands is going to get old super fast.

[Don4-bit]

confirmed, codeboard works.So I've got a workaround for now. Though since the stock android keyboard does not work, it is still a problem.

[ZhilkinSerg]

Yeah, it would remain a problem if keyboard app does not send keycodes to Cata. And it would do so when autocorrection and suggestions are enabled.

[zetapulse]

I'd like to note that this issue still stands as of the release of Ellison. The extra keyboard idea is good, in the meantime I was working around it by switching out and back into the app:
*Press running processes button
*Go back into CDDA
The keyboard will still be up and should work for the next command you input.

15/04: I seem to no longer have this issue even though I didn't do anything.
5min later: Nope, it's happening again.

[UltraGamerine]

I am playing 0.E stable and it is still the issue, whenever capital keys are used, the game remembers and keeps pressing it. But when i backspace and use a key, it seems to work fine, but now i have to always keep pressing the backspace key after using anything. It is as if game is taking input in a textbox.
This seems to be only an issue on normal android keyboards, I downloaded a PC like keyboard (Hacker's Keyboard) and it seems to work just fine :)
Maybe this info will help someone trying to fix the issue.

[ZhilkinSerg]

I am playing 0.E stable and it is still the issue, whenever capital keys are used, the game remembers and keeps pressing it. But when i backspace and use a key, it seems to work fine, but now i have to always keep pressing the backspace key after using anything. It is as if game is taking input in a textbox.
This seems to be only an issue on normal android keyboards, I downloaded a PC like keyboard (Hacker's Keyboard) and it seems to work just fine :)
Maybe this info will help someone trying to fix the issue.

Vendors put things in stock keyboard apps which make them behave differently from physical keyboards, so try disabling auto-correction, search suggestions/input predictions and other similar functions.

[TheMaskedObscenity]

I have a related issue that consistently crashes the game.

I am playing version 0.E-2 on a google Pixel 2 running its stock and up to date Android OS.
When I plug in my Dell compact keyboard via USB, the game crashes.

This error did not exist in the previous versions to my knowledge as it is how i always played the game

[ZhilkinSerg]

What if you plug in your physical keyboard before starting a game?

[TheMaskedObscenity]

Unfortunately the same issue persists.

originally I thought the issue was due to me streaming from my phone to my
Chromecast so that I would not have to crane my neck to play the game.

unfortunately the only troubleshooting that has actually resolved the issue
is unplugging the keyboard which worked in the last version.

thanks for getting back to me quickly about this by the way, this is
actually probably the best game I've ever played. And the fact that it's
open source is great. I'm actually trying to teach myself how to code so
that I can add a mixed martial arts system into the game

On Tue, May 26, 2020, 1:26 AM ZhilkinSerg [e-mail] wrote:

What if you plug in your physical keyboard before starting a game?

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[ZhilkinSerg]

So, whenever a physical keyboard is plugged in game crashes? When exactly does it happen? When you press any key on a keyboard?

[TheMaskedObscenity]

Its not related to the use of the keyboard, its the presence of it. When i
plug the keyboard in, or if I start the app with it plugged in it
terminates and if i try to restart it, i get this message.

On Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:04 AM ZhilkinSerg [e-mail] wrote:

So, whenever a physical keyboard is plugged in game crashes? When exactly
does it happen? When you press any key on a keyboard?

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[ZhilkinSerg]

Which message? Do you have a screenshot or a crash log?

[TheMaskedObscenity]

sorry, the screenshot never sent, im a noob to github and didnt realize the email responded to the forum. Derp

Its not a crash log, just the standard google mesage that says "This appkeeps stopping" then it gives me the option to look at the app info, close,or send report.

Id wager its some kind of issue with either the drivers or a script. I willtry to attach the screenshot again,

On Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:43 AM ZhilkinSerg [e-mail] wrote:

Which message? Do you have a screenshot or a crash log?

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