On both Windows 10 and 11, when making annotations to an ePub, onscreen keyboard flow text input (aka 'swyping') doesn't work in EPub Viewer's text input window. This means that I have to actually
type the input. As I'm using a Surface Go Tablet as, well, a tablet, without a keyboard, this is a huge pain. As a really lame but functional workaround, I'm actually flowing my notes into Joplin App and then doing a copy/paste into EPub Viewer.
Some quick Googling strongly suggests that Windows is likely detecting the annotation window as a password field.
I'm not a strong programmer, especially on Windows, and I
really don't understand the Windows detection logic at play here. With that in mind, here are my questions:
- Is there a better way to work around this? Maybe a setting that I'm missing, or a registry edit?
- If not, is it possible for the Calibre devs to address this in a future release?
- If this is dev-addressable, how do I get this on their radar?
Thanks!
The annotations field is an html textarea rendered and managed by Qt WebEngine (aka Chromium). Why windows would think thats a password field I have no idea.
It's Microsoft's problem. They are stupidly trying to have the same OS GUI for a touch screen and a desktop. Since Windows 7 they are doing both wrong.
Try a 3rd party screen keyboard or a different OS if you want touch to work properly. I gave away two Win10 tablets.