Hi,

I'm a potential buyer of the keyboard, and I'd like to know... if a layout is applied to an application that involves typing (Photoshop's text tool, for example), will they keyboard automatically detect that the cursor is in an input box and switch from a custom layout back to a normal keyboard layout?

Say I'm using the Photoshop layout then pick the text tool... will the keys change to text automatically?

Thanks.

Hi Gleasonator. Welcome.

This is a good question, one which I personally have not tried nor have had any need of yet. There is in the configurator a text input mode setting, which looks to be what you are after. However a quick attempt to get it work failed, I will have another go when I have a little more time, or maybe get one of the devs to leave a response on how to do it!

Text input mode detects if standart Windows input field active.
Text tool in Photoshop - there is no standart way to do this

I face this issue when playing video games and need to type messages to other gamers. My work around was to employ a layer toggle key (like the way caps lock works) so i can disable/enable my desired layers.

with some clever programming you might be able to make a trigger on a "Control+T" layer (think thats Type tool in PS) which would then disable the layer for you so you could type, then you'd simply need another toggle to on the plain text layer to re-enable. Based on that should be straight forward to do.

its impossible to configure the driver to identify what mode each separate program is currently unless you using the SDK or API (if available) to make your own driver/program.