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Ya, I'm doing the same. Only see the Ed client window, and pinned dash windows. Reading more to see if anything lights the "light bulb". Thanks for your help, will definitely post if I find the issue.
Can't type in Galaxy Map search using Rift and latest Dash
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Ya, I'm doing the same. Only see the Ed client window, and pinned dash windows. Reading more to see if anything lights the "light bulb". Thanks for your help, will definitely post if I find the issue.
Are you using your mouse in the Galmap per chance?
No, I use a PS4 controller in game, and then the right touch controller for dash interaction.
To me it looks as if my running instance of Ed is not in seamless mode? Aren't the only requirements for seamless mode is to make sure you launch Ed from a running Oculus environment, like the Oculus library?
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So you naviagte to the Galmap search box using your controller and then press a button once to bring focus to the search input so that the cursor blinks?
I don't quite understand this:
"Do you have to somehow "pin" the Ed client window, because right now it appears to not be "part of" the dash environment. It's kind of sitting there on it's own."
As in the part where you say its sat there on its own. The Elite Dangerous mirror window should only show on your virtual desktop.
Maybe you can upload a video showing us your issue.
I don't quite understand this:
"Do you have to somehow "pin" the Ed client window, because right now it appears to not be "part of" the dash environment. It's kind of sitting there on it's own."
As in the part where you say its sat there on its own. The Elite Dangerous mirror window should only show on your virtual desktop.
Maybe you can upload a video showing us your issue.
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Essentially, I open the Galmap by voice, but click in the search box with my ps4 controller, and it blinks. I then grab my touch controller which hangs off my chair, and hit the "home/dash" button. I then see as separate windows, the running Ed client with Galmap open and blinking cursor, and any pinned windows. Only one of those windows can have focus at any given time, that's the problem. If I use the keyboard you've provided, or the built in one, they get focus, and the Galmap "looses" focus, no more blinking cursor in the search box, or better put, the Galmap refuses to acknowledge any input from a keyboard, other than a physical one.
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The Elite Dangerous mirror window should not be shown as a separate pulled out window... Only a window on your virtual desktop which you minimise
Can you try running Elite without Voice Attack running and then test the Galmap search. My keyboard doesn't care if Elite is in focus or not it still forces it's output to the Elite window. Does it work in the comms panel for typing messages?
From your description I can only assume that a third party app of some kind is taking focus away from the Galmap search box or you are moving your head too much which also does the same. I'd personally disable all of your third party apps while running Elite and then retest.
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The running Ed client window is a separate window with a border, no controls. Meaning no min/max buttons or the like. I tried without VA and the voicepacks, my god, nobody talking to me, I feel so alone.[noob] Made no difference, using your keyboard or the supplied. As soon as I touch the "A" button on the touch controller to select something, the Galmap search box cursor stops blinking.
But, and a big but, your keyboard works perfectly fine in the Comms panel.[yesnod]
So seamless mode is working fine with everything but the Galmap for some reason.
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What happens if you don't press the 'A' button once you have the Galmap search focused.
As a thought, do you perhaps have a rogue bind in your mappings? Maybe you have 'A' bound to something UI related without realising.
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"A" is the touch controller, can't bind that in ED?
If I don't touch the "A" button on touch the Galmap stays in focus, but then how do I input anything virtually. Again, a physical keyboard is fine, just nothing virtual because they take focus away from the Galmap.
You can use my keyboard by physically pressing the keys with your virtual finger. No need to press any buttons.
You can bind all of the Touch buttons and axis in Elite.
You can bind all of the Touch buttons and axis in Elite.
Yes, just fired up computer and tried. No, nothing on the touch controller was bound to anything. I'll try my virtual finger.
Still nothing. I cannot interact with "anything" if the Galmap is open. It has focus, and will not let it go. I can push on your keyboard with my virtual finger and I hear a click, and ding, and nothing gets typed in the Galmap.
When you push the home/dash button on your touch, does the Ed window have a blue border around it? I cannot interact with anything on my desktop, if the Galmap is open. If it's not open and I push the home/dash button everything is fine.
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Blue boarder, nope never heard of that.
Here's a picture of my desktop after hitting the home/dash button on the touch controller. Doesn't show well in the picture but there is a small blue border around the Ed window. That window has focus and I can't click on anything else outside of that window. The only way I can "get access" to my desktop is to get out of the Galmap back in the game, so I'm sitting in the cockpit. Once I do that I can click on whatever I like on the desktop. Another option is to alt-tab to another window.
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It's not just the Galmap. If I'm in Starport Services, any screen in there, it's the same. I cannot interact with the desktop through Dash. The only time I can interact with Dash/desktop to pin windows, or do anything while playing Ed, is if I go to Dash/desktop from the cockpit of a ship, with no other in game windows/panels open.
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When I'm in the virtual desktop I can interact with all aspects of the desktop, open browsers, etc, pin windows, everything works as expected. Keyboard input works fine. This is provided I'm still in the cockpit of the ship, with no other windows opened.
Using the HCS voice command "Open Galaxy Map" when I'm still in the virtual desktop, I can see the window focus change to the Ed client window, and the Galaxy map pops up, which it should. From that point on though I cannot interact with the desktop environment at all. I can't open a browser, open file explorer, nothing. The virtual desktop is locked out when I'm in the Galaxy map.
When I then give the verbal command "Close Galaxy Map", the map closes and I'm back in the ships cockpit, and I have full control of the virtual desktop environment again.
Something in Ed is locking out the virtual desktop environment when any systems are opened, like Starport Services, Galaxy Map, and System Map. If any of those are opened while I'm in the virtual desktop, the virtual desktop is locked from any interaction.
What I'm observing is any screen in Ed that has a cursor arrow in it is stealing focus from the virtual desktop as soon as they're opened. The ships cockpit has no cursor arrow, just a blue dot that moves around with your head movement, so it's fine.
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When I'm in the virtual desktop I can interact with all aspects of the desktop, open browsers, etc, pin windows, everything works as expected. Keyboard input works fine. This is provided I'm still in the cockpit of the ship, with no other windows opened.
Using the HCS voice command "Open Galaxy Map" when I'm still in the virtual desktop, I can see the window focus change to the Ed client window, and the Galaxy map pops up, which it should. From that point on though I cannot interact with the desktop environment at all. I can't open a browser, open file explorer, nothing. The virtual desktop is locked out when I'm in the Galaxy map.
When I then give the verbal command "Close Galaxy Map", the map closes and I'm back in the ships cockpit, and I have full control of the virtual desktop environment again.
Something in Ed is locking out the virtual desktop environment when any systems are opened, like Starport Services, Galaxy Map, and System Map. If any of those are opened while I'm in the virtual desktop, the virtual desktop is locked from any interaction.
What I'm observing is any screen in Ed that has a cursor arrow in it is stealing focus from the virtual desktop as soon as they're opened. The ships cockpit has no cursor arrow, just a blue dot that moves around with your head movement, so it's fine.
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I'm honestly out of ideas. Judging by what you say something is very wrong with your setup, something which does not happen to anyone else. I'd think about a re-install of both the Oculus software and Elite. I take it that you have tested with all 3rd party software closed to rule out another application being the cause of your issue.
Running out of ideas myself. Reinstall of Elite is perhaps an option, although a drastic one, or possibly go over my key mappings again, although they haven't been touched in a long time. Honestly, nothing has changed from my normal day to day use, other than the recent Oculus firmware update, I've pretty much convinced myself Oculus is not the problem. Dash is working as it should overall , it's only Ed that I'm now having an issue with. The only 3rd party software I'm using is Voice Attack with HCS Voice packs and Eddi, and Market Connector. I've tried without VA running, and there's no difference.
Again, thank you for the help you offered, I'll keep plugging away at it.
Sems like pushing the button on a touch controller pulls focus from the game and thus no input recognized.
I had sometimes opened dash desktop, pull out the keyboard, highlight the ed window again, then type into the map from the dash, not going back into ED.
this has never been something I have done much, since well, I learned to touch type more than 25 years ago.
I suppose you could setup a notepad type into that, and then copy paste into the game.
I had sometimes opened dash desktop, pull out the keyboard, highlight the ed window again, then type into the map from the dash, not going back into ED.
this has never been something I have done much, since well, I learned to touch type more than 25 years ago.
I suppose you could setup a notepad type into that, and then copy paste into the game.
Not much of a touch typer here, hen pecker that has to look at the keyboard.
When I press the button on the touch controller to go to the virtual desktop, I see exactly what I posted above in the picture. The Ed client window is "on the top" and has a distinct (small) blue line border around it. I cannot interact with anything in that virtual desktop at this point, because the Ed client has focus, and trying to select anything on the virtual desktop with the touch controller does nothing. I can see the cursor arrow for the touch controller stop when I get to the edge of the Ed client window, it will not go outside that window. The Ed window has focus, and will not let it go. At this point I need to Alt-tab to another window to interact with the virtual desktop. Once I Alt-tab, the blue border disappears from the Ed client window. That's providing I've pressed the "Oculus Button" with the Galaxy map/System map or Starport Services open in game.
If I press the Oculus Button while still at a "clear" cockpit screen in the ship, everything is fine, meaning no Galmap open, no System map open, and not in Starport services. There's also no blue border around the Ed client window either, very important. Those 3 in game screens are what's causing the issue, it's definitely a window focus problem, with them open.
I just tried with no 3rd party apps running, and selected a default control scheme, and I'm getting the same result.
This is my Oculus App Version, 1.29.0.651191, can someone who's not having this issue check that they're running the same version as me?
This is my Ed game version from the Journal, "gameversion":"3.1.3.201 EDH", "build":"r175762/r0 ".
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I'm on the same version as you.
Thank you.